Prophetic politics : Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering / Philip J. Harold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harold, Philip J.

Series:

Series in Continental thought.

Series in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas's mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier Totality and Infinity and that transformation manifests itself most clearly in the peculiar nature of Levinas's relationship to politics. Levinas's philosophy is concerned not with the ethical per se, in either its applied or its transcendent forms, but with the source of ethics. Once this source is revealed to be an anarchic inte

Contents:

Introduction

Death, escape, and thinking beyond being

Play and responsibility

The philosophical ethics of totality and infinity

The turning point : "violence and metaphysics"

Tradition and finite freedom

The political reversal of substitution

Justice and incommunicable suffering.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821443156

0821443151

OCLC:

742512941