Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Topolski, Anya.

Series:

Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Political and social views.

Political ethics.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political ethics--Philosophy.

Political science.

Arendt, Hannah.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Political and social views.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Local Subjects:

Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Political and social views.

Political ethics.

Political science--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Other Title:

Reframing the Boundaries

Place of Publication:

London : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>By bringing Hannah Arendt's politics into dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas' ethics, this book develops an approach to the political that is relational, inclusive, and empowering. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Note; Key Abbreviations for Works by Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas; Works by Hannah Arendt; Works by Emmanuel Levinas; Introduction; Notes; I: Bridges and Breaks; Chapter One: Biographical and Philosophical Intersections; Life Stories; Philosophical Parallels; Notes; Chapter Two: Divided by Disciplinary Confines?; Insurmountable Tensions?; What Is the Political?; What Is Ethics?; A Political Ethics; Notes; II: On Hannah Arendt; Notes; Chapter Three: On the Political; Totalitarianism: The Loss of the Human World; The Political: Creating a World Together

Plurality: A New Principle for the PoliticalNotes; Chapter Four: An Ethics from Within the Political; The Criterion for an Arendtian Ethics; Rethinking the Vita Contemplativa in Political and Ethical Terms; Responsibility: Bridging the Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa; Assessing Arendt's Political Ethics; Notes; III: On Emmanuel Levinas; Notes; Chapter Five: Levinas's Ethics; From Ontology to Ethics; Ethics as First Philosophy; Responsibility for the Other; Notes; Chapter Six: An Ethical Politics; The Criterion for Levinas's Politics; Post-Foundational Judaic Politics

Is Levinas's Ethical polis Enough?Notes; IV: From Plurality and Alterity to Relationality; Chapter Seven: From Arendt and Levinas to Relationality; Introducing Background Elements into Relationality; Experience and the Phenomenological Approach; Wrestling with Heidegger; The Judaic Contribution to Relationality; From Alterity and Plurality to Relationality; Notes; Chapter Eight: The Promise and Pitfalls of Relationality; Relationality: Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together; Towards a Politics of Relationality; Notes; Works Cited; Related Works; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-78348-342-3