Levinas''s Politics - Justice, Mercy, Universality

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Annabel Herzog
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.03.2020
• EAN: 9780812251975
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5197-5
• Seiten: 208
• Serien: Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke