Prophetic politics : Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering /

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Author / Creator:Harold, Philip J.
Imprint:Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 284 pages)
Language:English
Series:Series in Continental thought
Series in Continental thought.
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11098686
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ISBN:9780821443156
0821443151
9780821418956
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Harold, Philip J. Prophetic politics. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009