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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Annabel Herzog
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2020
• EAN: 9780812251975
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5197-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works