PROPHETIC POLITICS by Philip J. Harold, Ted Toadvine ( 9780821418956 )

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PROPHETIC POLITICS
EMMANUEL LEVINAS AND THE SANCTIFICATION OF SUFFERING

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Philip J. Harold, Ted Toadvine

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0821418955

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OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

15 September, 2009

Series:

Series in Continental Thought No. 37

Pages:

336

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Offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas' thought. This book highlights the relevance of the phenomenological tradition to contemporary ethical and political thought while also making a contribution to Levinas scholarship.

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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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