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Levinas and Liberal Political Thought Chapter 7 Levinas's Humanism of the Other as a Response to Modern and .

Levinas and Liberal Political Thought Chapter 7 Levinas's Humanism of the Other as a Response to Modern and Postmodern Anti-Humanisms Chapter 8 Zionism, Place, and the Other: Toward a Levinasian International Relations Chapter 9 Conclusion: The Questioning of Levinas

Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenologies of the face of the Other have opened new vistas for contemporary ethical .

Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenologies of the face of the Other have opened new vistas for contemporary ethical thought, but their implications for political thought have remained largely unexplored. In An-Archy and Justice, William Simmons systematically examines Levinas's political thought from its foundations to its implications to fill this theoretical void. Levinas worked Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenologies of the face of the Other have opened new vistas for contemporary ethical thought, but their implications for political thought have remained largely unexplored.

Here Simmons illustrates how Levinas's anarchical politics has much to teach us about the tyranny of a politics . Dialogue, October 2007)

Here Simmons illustrates how Levinas's anarchical politics has much to teach us about the tyranny of a politics practiced for its own sake and about a culture in which ego dominates political discourse. An-Archy and Justice is an important addition to our understanding of Levinas, as well as the politics of our age. (Cecil Eubanks, Louisiana State University). Dialogue, October 2007). The value of this book is that in it an introduction to the thought of Levinas and this thought's potential import for politics appear together, and flow into each other. Jeffrey Dudiak, The King's University College). It is a pleasure to read such a lucid presentation of Levinas.

Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenologies of the face of the Other have opened new vistas for contemporary ethical . An-Archy and Justice is a ground-breaking and thought-provoking analysis of a profoundly creative thinker. An-Archy and Justice: An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's Political Thought.

William Paul Simmons. Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenologies of the face of the Other have opened new vistas for contemporary ethical thought, but their implications for political thought have remained largely unexplored

William Paul Simmons. Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenologies of the face of the Other have opened new vistas for contemporary ethical thought, but their implications for political thought have remained largely unexplored.

William Paul Simmons is Associate Professor of Political Science and founding director of the . program in Social Justice and Human Rights at Arizona State University.

William Paul Simmons is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona and author of Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other and An-Archy and Justice: An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's Political Thought

William Paul Simmons is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona and author of Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other and An-Archy and Justice: An Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's Political Thought. Carol Mueller is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.

Book · January 2005 with 13 Reads. An-archy and justice : an introduction to Emmanuel Levinas's political thought /. Simmons. How we measure 'reads'. Levinas’s work is informed by his attempt to formulate a new ethical response towards other human beings in the light of the Holocaust. His proposal of an originary ethics, positing the primacy of the other, introduces the need of a serious reevaluation of the concepts of responsibility, substitution and transcendence.

Emmanuel Levinas (/ˈlɛvɪnæs/; French: ; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work related to Jewish philosophy, existentialism, ethics, phenomenology and onto.

Emmanuel Levinas (/ˈlɛvɪnæs/; French: ; 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work related to Jewish philosophy, existentialism, ethics, phenomenology and ontology. Emmanuelis Levinas (later adapted to French orthography as Emmanuel Levinas) was born in 1906 into a middle-class Litvak family in Kaunas, Russian Empire.