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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Continental thoughtPublication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [(c)2009.]Description: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 284 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821443156
  • 0821443151
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  • B2430.484
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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.
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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