Levinas between Ethics and Politics: For the Beauty that Adorns the Earth

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Title page ......Page 3 Copyright ......Page 4 Contents ......Page 6 Introduction ......Page 11 I. Presentation and Analisys of the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas ......Page 16 1. Introductory Remarks ......Page 17 2. Grounding the Dual Orders of Ontology and Ethics ......Page 21 3. Two Sources of Levinas' Thought ......Page 25 4. The Tension between Grounding Ethics and the Description of Responsibility ......Page 29 5. Concluding Remarks ......Page 40 1. Introductory Remarks ......Page 45 2. The Relation between Ontology and Ethics ......Page 46 3. Levinas' Ontology ......Page 47 4. Levinas' Project: First Philosophy and the Critique of Ontology ......Page 55 5. The Relation of Ethics to Politics and Ontology ......Page 57 6. The Trace of Transcendence in Being ......Page 59 3. Levels of Being in Totality and Infinity ......Page 63 4. Intersubjectivity in Totality and Infinity ......Page 90 5. Election from 'Veyond the Face' in Totality and Infinity: Intersubjectivity Grounded in a Figurative Biology......Page 113 6. The Passage from Ti to Obbe Via Prophetism and Messianic Cosnciousness ......Page 140 7. Subjectivity and Messianic Consciousness ......Page 156 8. Prophetism: From the Saying to the Said, or the Passage from Ethical Responsibility to Sociality ......Page 177 II. Between Responsibility and Justice: a Criticism of the Passage from Ethics to Politics ......Page 214 9. Ethics as First Philosophy and the Question of Its Universalization ......Page 215 10. The Universalization of Responsibility as a Passage from Ethics to Politics of Questioning: Simon Critchley's Reading of Levinas ......Page 246 11. Gillian Rose's Critique of Prophetism and Politics in Levinas ......Page 263 12. The Unhappy Consciousness and Levinas' Ethics ......Page 282 Concluding Remarks ......Page 300 Selected Bibliography ......Page 307 Index of Names ......Page 312