1st Edition

Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life Agamben and Levinas

By Tom Frost Copyright 2022
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

This first book-length study into the influence of Emmanuel Levinas on the thought and philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life, demonstrates how Agamben’s immanent thought can be read as presenting a compelling, albeit flawed, alternative to Levinas’s ethics of the Other. The publication of the English translation of The Use of Bodies in 2016 ended Giorgio... Read more

Introduction

Chapter One: An ever-divided life

Chapter Two: The transmission of negativity

Chapter Three: Immanence, Levinas, ethics and relationality

Chapter Four: The inoperative potential of a messianic life

Chapter Five: Agamben’s hyper-hermeneutics

Chapter Six: The origins of form-of-life

Chapter Seven: The limits of form-of-life

Conclusion

Biography

Tom Frost is based at the University of Leicester.