Genesis
Desmond Manderson ed., Essays on Levinas and Law: A Mosaic (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) 3-17
23 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2012
Date Written: November 29, 2009
Abstract
This chapter forms the introductory essay to a collection of new essays on the relationship between the ethical philosphy of Levinas and the law, with a particular focus on delimiting the range and implications of Levinas' ambitious ethical agenda. Issues of responsibility and hospitality, self and other, ethics and politics, law and justice, are outlined with reference to the implications for law and to their further elaboration in the rest of the essays contained in this collection.
Keywords: Levinas and law, law and ethics, law and politics, responsibility and hospitality, legality, legal philosophy
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