Essays on Levinas and Law: A Mosaic

by Desmond Manderson

Book Overview

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 'Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occurs': Levinas and the law of torts; D.Manderson To Judge a Vegetable: Levinasian Ethics and the 'morality of law'; M.Diamantides NUMBERS Subjecthood and Alterity in International Law; S.Jodoin The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: 'Illegal' 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349300438
• ISBN13: 9781349300433
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"