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9780415112499

Levinas and the Political

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    9780415112499

  • ISBN10:

    0415112494

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2002-08-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Howard Caygill systematically explores for the first time the relationship between Levinas' thought and the political. From Levinas' early writings in the face of National Socialism to controversial political statements on Israeli and French politics, Caygill analyses themes such as the deconstruction of metaphysics, embodiment, the face and alterity.He also examines Levinas' engagement with his contemporaries Heidegger and Bataille, and the implications of his rethinking of the political for an understanding of the Holocaust.

Author Biography

Howard Caygill is Professor of Cultural History at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviations
ix
Acknowledgements x
Introduction 1(4)
Presentiments of National Socialism
5(44)
Political horror
5(2)
Liberty Equality, Fraternity
7(7)
Phenomenology and freedom
14(15)
Philosophy and National Socialism
29(11)
Guide for the persecuted
40(9)
The Post-War Political
49(45)
The consequences of National Socialism
49(1)
The haunted peace
50(19)
The critique of political ontology: towards Totality and Infinity
69(10)
`Being Jewish'/`Being Western': towards Otherwise than Being
79(13)
Israel: between totality and the ethical
92(2)
Between War and Peace: the Burdens of Totality and Infinity
94(34)
Totality and war
94(3)
From lucidity to vigilance: the questions of Totality and Infinity
97(6)
War in peace
103(7)
War and the other
110(10)
Peace and the `work of justice'
120(8)
Prophetic Politics, or `Otherwise than Freedom'
128(31)
Difficult freedom
128(2)
Otherwise than Being I: the ontological supplement
130(3)
Otherwise than Being II: proximity and substitution
133(11)
Illeity and prophetic politics
144(7)
The rights of man and citizen
151(8)
Israel in Universal and Holy History
159(40)
Levinas's right to silence?
159(3)
The passion of Israel
162(4)
Israel and messianic politics
166(6)
Israel and Jewish identity
172(10)
Threatening others
182(12)
Assimilations
194(5)
Afterword: Strange Fire 199(5)
Notes 204(8)
Bibliography 212(3)
Index 215

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