Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality by Herzog, Annabel

Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality

A compelling account of politics and social philosophy in Levinas's Talmudic commentaries Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a...
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Author: Annabel Herzog
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Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality by Herzog, Annabel

Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality

$156.98

Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality

$156.98
Author: Annabel Herzog
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A compelling account of politics and social philosophy in Levinas's Talmudic commentaries

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a French philosopher known for his radical ethics and for his contribution to Jewish thought in his commentaries on Talmudic sources. In Levinas's Politics, Annabel Herzog confronts a major difficulty in Levinas's philosophy: the relationship between ethics and politics. Levinas's ethics describes the encounter with the other, that is, with any other human being. For Levinas, the face-to-face encounter is a relationship in which the ego is commanded by a transcendent and unquestionable order to take responsibility for the other person. Politics, on the other hand, presupposes at least three people: the ego, the other, and any third party. Among three people, nothing can be transcendent; on the contrary, everything must be negotiated.

Against the conventional view of Levinas's conception of the political as the interruption and collapse of the ethical, Herzog argues that in the Talmudic readings, Levinas constructed politics positively. She shows that Levinas's Talmudic readings embody a pragmatism that complements, revises, and challenges the extreme ethical analyses he offers in his phenomenological works--Totality and Infinity, Otherwise than Being, and Of God Who Comes to Mind. Her analysis illuminates Levinas's explanations of the relationship between ethics and politics: ethics is the foundation of justice; justice contains a necessary violence that must be moderated by mercy; and justice, general laws, and national aspirations must be linked in an attempt to improve universality itself.

Author: Annabel Herzog
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 03/13/2020
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780812251975

About the Author
Annabel Herzog teaches political theory in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel.

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