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Levinas, Ethics, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

By Norman K. Swazo Copyright 2025
120 Pages
by Routledge India

120 Pages
by Routledge India

120 Pages
by Routledge India

This book engages with the philosophical thought of French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. It studies some of his Talmudic readings and his concern for a Jewish “universal ethics.” It does so in relation to the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the moral imperatives that apply to the conduct of the State of Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) vis-a-vis the Palestinian... Read more

Ch 1: In War the Enemy is “Without Face, Without Name”? Ch 2: “The Face” and “the Bloods”: Levinas contra Levinas and the Moral Imperative of Sanhedrin 4:5

Biography

Norman K. Swazo, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.