Prophetic politics : Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering /

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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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Harold, Philip J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009.
Series:Series in Continental thought.
Subjects:
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Lévinas, Emmanuel
Lévinas, Emmanuel > Politische Philosophie.
Levinas, Emmanuel.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Leid
Tod
Existenzphilosophie
Wertethik
Leid.
Tod.
Existenzphilosophie.
Ethik.
Wert.
Politische Philosophie.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 284 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780821443156
0821443151

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