Difficult Justice : : Commentaries on Levinas and Politics / / ed. by Asher Horowitz, Gad Horowitz.
French philosopher and Talmudic commentator Emmanuel Levinas (1906?1995) is best known for his two major, highly original works on ethics, Totality and Infinity (1961) and Otherwise Than Being or Beyond Essence (1974). Among his lesser known works is a short but remarkable essay published in 1934, ?...
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| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism
- Is Liberalism All We Need? Prelude via Fascism
- Essays
- Beyond Rational Peace: On the Possibility/Necessity of a Levinasian Hyperpolitics
- Hands That Give and Hands That Take: The Politics of the Feminine in Levinas
- Levinas in the Key of the Political
- 'The Politics' by Levinas: Towards a 'Critical' Political Philosophy
- Hemorrhage and Filiality: Towards a Fecundation of the Political
- Levinas and Alterity Politics
- Public Transgressions: Levinas and Arendt
- Can Fig Trees Grow on Mountains? Reversing the Question of Great Politics
- Levinas, Nietzsche, and Benjamin's 'Divine Violence'
- From Escape to Hostage
- The Ethics and Politics of the Handshake: Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Nancy
- Strangers and Slaves in the Land of Egypt: Levinas and the Politics of Otherness
- Levinas's Reflections on State, Revolution, and Utopia from a Jewish Perspective
- Levinas, the Messianic, and the Question of History
- From a Memory beyond Memory to a State beyond the State
- Aporia and Messiah in Derrida and Levinas