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Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life - Agamben and Levinas
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Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life - Agamben and Levinas
Series: Law and Politics
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This first book-length study into the influence of Emmanuel Levinas
on the thought and philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Law,
Relationality and the Ethical Life, demonstrates how Agamben’s
immanent thought can be read as presenting a compelling, albeit
flawed, alternative to Levinas’s ethics of the Other. The
publication of the English translation of The Use of Bodies in 2016
ended Giorgio Agamben’s 20-year multi-volume Homo Sacer study.
Over this time, Agamben’s thought has greatly influenced
scholarship in law, the wider humanities and social sciences. This
book places Agamben’s figure of form-of-life in relation to
Levinasian understandings of alterity, relationality and the law.
Considering how Agamben and Levinas craft their respective forms of
embodied existence – that is, a fully-formed human that can live
an ethical life – the book considers Agamben’s attempt to move
beyond Levinasian ethics through the liminal figures of the foetus
and the patient in a persistent vegetative state. These figures,
which Agamben uses as examples of bare life, call into question the
limits of Agamben’s non-relational use and form of existence. As
such, it is argued, they reveal the limitations of Agamben’s own
ethics, whilst suggesting that his ‘abandoned’ project can and
must be taken further. This book will be of interest to scholars,
researchers, graduate students and anyone with an interest in the
thought of Giorgio Agamben and Emmanuel Levinas in the fields of
law, philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences.
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Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Law and Politics |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Tom Frost
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
250 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-205715-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-03-205715-7 |
Barcode: |
9781032057156 |
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