Levinas's Politics: Justice, Mercy, Universality

by Annabel Herzog

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812251970
• ISBN13: 9780812251975
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"