Difficult justice : commentaries on Levinas and politics / edited by Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horowitz, Asher, 1950-

Horowitz, Gad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Political ethics.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xii, 330 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2006]

Contents:

Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism / Emmanuel Levinas 3

Is Liberalism All We Need? Prelude via Fascism / Asher Horowitz, Gad Horowitz 12

Essays

Beyond Rational Peace: On the Possibility/Necessity of a Levinasian Hyperpolitics / Asher Horowitz 27

Hands that Give and Hands That Take: The Politics of the Feminine in Levinas / Tina Chanter 48

Levinas in the Key of the Political / Oona Eisenstadt 63

'The Politics' by Levinas: Towards a 'Critical' Political Philosophy / Enrique Dussel 78

Hemorrhage and Filiality: Towards a Fecundation of the Political / Mielle Chandler 97

Levinas and Alterity Politics / Shannon Bell 111

Public Transgressions: Levinas and Arendt / Keith Anderson 127

Can Fig Trees Grow on Mountains? Reversing the Question of Great Politics / Brian Schroeder 148

Levinas, Nietzsche, and Benjamin's 'Divine Violence' / Victoria Tahmasebi 172

From Escape to Hostage / Marinos Diamantides 191

The Ethics and Politics of the Handshake: Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Nancy / Rosalyn Diprose 221

Strangers and Slaves in the Land of Egypt: Levinas and the Politics of Otherness / Robert Bernasconi 246

Levinas's Jewish Perspective on State, Revolution and Utopia / Ze'ev Levy 262

Levinas, the Messianic, and the Question of History / Robert Gibbs 271

From a Memory beyond Memory to a State beyond the State / Joseph Rosen 285

Aporia and Messiah in Derrida and Levinas / Gad Horowitz 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

080208009X

OCLC:

61127874

Publisher Number:

9780802080097