Annabel Herzog

Levinas's Politics

Justice, Mercy, Universality

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Produktbeschreibung

In Levinas's Politics, Annabel Herzog argues that Levinas's Talmudic readings embody a political pragmatism which complements, revises, and challenges the ethical analyses he offers in his phenomenological works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780812251975
• ISBN-10: 0812251970
• Artikelnr.: 59475438

Autorenporträt

Annabel Herzog teaches political theory in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Note on Translations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Talmudic Readings: From Literature to Politics
Chapter 2. Levinas's Conception of Politics in the Talmudic Readings
Chapter 3. Levinas's Critique of Social "Indifference"
Chapter 4. On the Necessity of Political Violence
Chapter 5. Evil as Injustice
Chapter 6. On Nature
Chapter 7. Levinas and the Modern State of Israel
Chapter 8. Hegelian Dialectics and the Question of Messianism
Conclusion. Levinas's Concept of Laïcité
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments