Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life

Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life
Author: Tom Frost
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: Ethical relativism
ISBN: 9781032057156

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.

Essays on Levinas and Law

Essays on Levinas and Law
Author: Desmond Manderson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0230234739

This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.

Levinas, Ethics and Law

Levinas, Ethics and Law
Author: Stone Matthew Stone
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-01-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1474400779

Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of ethics has frequently attracted attention amongst legal scholars, but he remains a divisive and often enigmatic contributor to this field. He has been read within contexts as varied as human rights, private law, refugee law, and on the nature of judicial reasoning. This book explores what unites such apparently diverse applications of his ideas, and in doing so considers the challenge of law's ethical relationship with the other. In addition to asking how Levinas's ethics can inform legal problems, the book also examines how the modern legal edifice has a deceptive tendency to close itself off from the ethical experience. In particular, literatures on biopolitics suggest that law is increasingly complicit in reductive determinations of how we understand ourselves and others. Levinas's most penetrating insight might not, therefore, lie in the law's instrumentalisation of his ethics, but instead in the way his ethics trace a human encounter that escapes law.

Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law

Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law
Author: Desmond Manderson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 077353041X

The relationship between tort law jurisprudence and the ethics and phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas.

Entre Nous

Entre Nous
Author: Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2006-06-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826490797

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. This book is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Levinas's philosophy. It gathers his important work and reveals the development of his thought. It looks at issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory.

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas

The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
Author: Diane Perpich
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2008
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0804759421

This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.

Levinas, Ethics and Law

Levinas, Ethics and Law
Author: Stone Matthew Stone
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-07-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1474415148

Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of ethics has frequently attracted attention amongst legal scholars, but he remains a divisive and often enigmatic contributor to this field. He has been read within contexts as varied as human rights, private law, refugee law, and on the nature of judicial reasoning. This book explores what unites such apparently diverse applications of his ideas, and in doing so considers the challenge of law's ethical relationship with the other. In addition to asking how Levinas's ethics can inform legal problems, the book also examines how the modern legal edifice has a deceptive tendency to close itself off from the ethical experience. In particular, literatures on biopolitics suggest that law is increasingly complicit in reductive determinations of how we understand ourselves and others. Levinas's most penetrating insight might not, therefore, lie in the law's instrumentalisation of his ethics, but instead in the way his ethics trace a human encounter that escapes law.

Levinas's Ethical Politics

Levinas's Ethical Politics
Author: Michael L. Morgan
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2016-05-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0253021189

Emmanuel Levinas conceives of our lives as fundamentally interpersonal and ethical, claiming that our responsibilities to one another should shape all of our actions. While many scholars believe that Levinas failed to develop a robust view of political ethics, Michael L. Morgan argues against understandings of Levinas's thought that find him politically wanting or even antipolitical. Morgan examines Levinas's ethical critique of the political as well as his Jewish writings—including those on Zionism and the founding of the Jewish state—which are controversial reflections of Levinas's political expression. Unlike others who dismiss Levinas as irrelevant or anarchical, Morgan is the first to give extensive treatment to Levinas as a serious social political thinker whose ethics must be understood in terms of its political implications. Morgan reveals Levinas's political commitments to liberalism and democracy as well as his revolutionary conception of human life as deeply interconnected on philosophical, political, and religious grounds.

A Covenant of Creatures

A Covenant of Creatures
Author: Michael Fagenblat
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-06-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0804774684

"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework, Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of epistemology.

Performing Ethics Through Film Style

Performing Ethics Through Film Style
Author: Edward Lamberti
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-11-06
Genre: Motion pictures
ISBN: 1474444024

Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three directorial bodies of work: those of Barbet Schroeder, Paul Schrader and the Dardenne Brothers.