Levinas and the Political (Thinking the Political)
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Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelevinaspolitical0000cayg
- ISBN-100415112486
- ISBN-139780415112482
- Goodreads6688910
- LibraryThing3688986
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- Library of Congress Control Number2002021344
- OCLC Control Number252955159
- OCLC Control Number49531046
- Better World Books9780415112482
- Open LibraryOL7483102M
Classifications
- LCCJC273.L43 C39 2002
- LCCJC273.L43C39 2002
- LCCJC273.L43 C39 2002eb
Description
"Emmanuel Levinas is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century and is best known for his work on ethics and theology. Even though he has been very influential in literature and cultural theory, the political implications of his work have so far been neglected. Levinas & the Political is the first book to explore systematically the relation of Levinas's thought to the political, and how the ethical resources he offers can enrich our understanding of the political arena." "Levinas & the Political explores the political from Levinas's early writings in the face of National Socialism through to his controversial political statements on Israel and French politics. It analyses themes such as the deconstruction of metaphysics as a reconfiguration of the political, embodiment, the face and alterity. Howard Caygill also explores Levinas's engagement with the heritage of Heidegger and Bergson, and the implications of his rethinking of the political for an understanding of the significance of the Holocaust." "Levinas & the Political is essential reading for all students of philosophy and politics and all those interested in Levinas."--Cover.
First Sentence
In 'Signature' - the autobiographical sketch that closes Difficult Freedom - Levinas described his life as a 'disparate inventory...dominated by the presentiment and memory of the Nazi horror' (DF, 291).
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