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. ÍNDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - GENESIS - Introduction;D.Manderson - EXODUS - Getting Down to Cases: Can a Levinasian Ethics Generate Norms?; D.Perpich - Levinasian Ethics and the Concept of Law; J.Crowe - Questions for a Reluctant Jurisprudence of Alterity; N.Smith - Productive Ambivalence: Levinasian Subjectivity, Justice, and the Rule of Law; J.Stauffer - LEVITICUS - Verdict and Sentence: Cover and Levinas on the Robe of Justice; R.Gibbs- b Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occursb : Levinas and the law of torts; D.Manderson - To Judge a Vegetable: Levinasian Ethics and the b morality of lawb ; M.Diamantides - NUMBERS - Subjecthood and Alterity in International Law; S.Jodoin - The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: b Illegalb Immigrants Stand Over American Law; M.Failinger - Negative Witnessing and the Perplexities of Forgiveness: Polish Jewish contexts after the Shoah; D.Glowacka - DEUTERONOMY - Anarchic Law; S.Critchley (with a response by D.Manderson) - Exceptional Justice, Violent Proximity; J.Sims - Rethinking Justice with Levinas; S.Roberts-Cady - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20237-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 05/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés