Lévinas's ethical politics

Lévinas's ethical politics / Michael L. Morgan.

Emmanuel Levinas conceives of our lives as fundamentally interpersonal and ethical, claiming that our responsibilities to one another should shape all of our actions. While many scholars believe that Levinas failed to develop a robust view of political ethics, Michael L. Morgan argues against unders...

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Main Author: Morgan, Michael L., 1944- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Series:The Helen and Martin Schwartz lectures in Jewish studies
Subjects:
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Lévinas, Emmanuel
Lévinas, Emmanuel > 1906-1995
Ethics.
Political science > Philosophy.
Political ethics.
ethics (philosophy)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Religious.
Ethics
Political ethics
Political science > Philosophy
Ethik
Politische Philosophie
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Table of Contents:
  • Overview
  • Tears the civil servant cannot see: ethics and politics
  • Judaism, Zionism, and the state of Israel
  • Philosophical articulation
  • The third party: transcendental ethics and realistic politics
  • Ethics as critique
  • Responsibility for others and the discourse of rights
  • Liberalism and democracy
  • Ethics, politics, and Zionism
  • Teaching prophetic politics: ethics and politics in Levinas's Talmudic lessons
  • Zionism and the justification of a Jewish state
  • Ethics, politics, and Messianism
  • Levinas's notorious interview
  • Defense
  • Levinas and his critics.

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