1st Edition

Levinas, Law, Politics

Edited By Marinos Diamantides Copyright 2007
226 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

232 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

232 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

Emmanuel Levinas' re-formulation of subjectivity, responsibility and the good has radically influenced post-structuralist thought. Political and legal theory, however, have only marginally profited from his moral philosophy. Levinas' theme of one's infinite responsibility for the other has often been romanticized by some advocates of multiculturalism and natural justice. In this volume,... Read more
Politics not Left to Itself: Recognition and Forgiveness in Levinas Philosophy.  Levinas and Devotional Trauma.  How Levinas Ethics is Compromised by his Lack of Reflection on his Politics and How it can be Salvaged.  Transgressing Levinas.  Levinas and the Limits of Political Theory.  Hands that Give and Hands that Take: The Politics of the Other in Levinas.  Levinas' Silence.  Here I Am: Illuminating and Delimiting Responsibility.  The Right to Die and an Ethics of Death.  Politics and Transcendence

Biography

Marinos Diamantides is Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck School of Law, UK.