Essays on Levinas and Law A Mosaic

by Manderson, Desmond

• ISBN13: 9780230202375
• ISBN10: 0230202373
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.

Author Biography

DESMOND MANDERSON holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Discourse at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada. He teaches, supervises, and publishes on a wide range of subjects involving interdisciplinary work in law and the humanities, with particular interests in ideas about the relationship of law to aesthetics, philosophy, ethics, music, and literature. He is the author of several books including From Mr Sin to Mr Big: A History of Australian Drug Laws (1993); Courting Death: The Law of Mortality (1999); Songs Without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice (2000); and Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law (2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors Genesis

Introduction

Ethics and the Concept of Law

Productive Ambivalence: Levinasian Subjectivity, Justice, and the Rule of Law

Leviticus Verdict and Sentence: Cover and Levinas on the Robe of Justice

‘Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occurs’: Levinas and the law of torts

To Judge a Vegetable: Levinasian Ethics and the ‘morality of law’

Numbers Subjecthood and Alterity in International Law

The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: ‘Illegal’ Immigrants Stand Over American Law

Negative Witnessing and the Perplexities of Forgiveness: Polish Jewish contexts after theShoah

Deuteronomy Anarchic Law

Exceptional Justice, Violent Proximity

Rethinking Justice with Levinas

Index

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