An-Archy and Justice An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's Political Thought

by Simmons, William Paul

• ISBN13: 9780739107034
• ISBN10: 0739107038
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-29
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

An-Archy and Justice reveals how Emmanuel Levinas' thought moves from an an-archichal ethics based on the face of the Other to an embrace of the modern liberal state. Author William Paul Simmons argues that by grounding the liberal state in this an-archical ethic, Levinas' philosophy provides a new foundation and new possibilities for key concepts of political thought such as natural rights, freedom, humanism, and international relations.

Author Biography

William Paul Simmons is Assistant Professor at Bethany College.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: Intellectual Biography, Judaism, and the Possibility of a Levinasian Politics	1	(18)
Autonomy, Totality, and Anti-Humanism: Levinas's Critique of the Western Philosophical Tradition	19	(16)
Levinasian Ethics I: Totality and Infinity	35	(12)
Levinasian Ethics II: Otherwise than Being	47	(18)
Ethics and Politics: An-Archy and Justice	65	(14)
Why Tell this Long Story about the Face? Levinas and Liberal Political Thought	79	(18)
Levinas's Humanism of the Other as a Response to Modern and Postmodern Anti-Humanisms	97	(14)
Zionism, Place, and the Other: Toward a Levinasian International Relations	111	(6)
Conclusion: The Questioning of Levinas	117	(10)
Bibliography	127	(12)
Index	139	(4)
About the Author	143