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Prophetic Politics - Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering (Hardcover)
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Prophetic Politics - Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Continental Thought
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In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original
interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel
Levinas\u2019s thought. Harold argues that Levinas\u2019s 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\u2019s relationship to politics. Levinas\u2019s
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 interruption of our
efforts to think the ethical, Levinas\u2019s political claims
cannot be read as straightforward ideological positions or
principles for political action. They are instead to be understood
\u201cprophetically,\u201d a position that Harold finds comparable
to the communitarian critique of liberalism offered by such writers
as Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor. In developing this
interpretation, which runs counter to formative influences from the
phenomenological tradition, Harold traces Levinas\u2019s debt to
phenomenological descriptions of such experiences as empathy and
playfulness. Prophetic Politics will highlight the relevance of the
phenomenological tradition to contemporary ethical and political
thought-a long-standing goal of the series-while also making a
significant and original contribution to Levinas scholarship.
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