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Emmanuel Levinas re-formulation of subjectivity, responsibility and the good has radically influenced post-structuralist thought. This volume critically engages with an idealisation of Levinas ethics. It also talks about the rebelliousness of Levinas thought and uses it to challenge the preconceptions of social and individual responsibility.

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Emmanuel Levinas re-formulation of subjectivity, responsibility and the good has radically influenced post-structuralist thought. Political and legal theory, however, have only marginally profited from his moral philosophy. Levinas theme of one's infinite responsibility for the other has been often romanticised by some advocates of multiculturalism and natural justice. In this volume, political theorists, philosophers and legal scholars critically engage with this idealisation of Levinas ethics. The authors show that his crucial formulation of the idea of the other in me does not offer a quick cure for today's nationalist, racist and religious divides. Nor does his notion of anarchic responsibility provide immediate relief for the agony of dealing with matters of life and death. The rebelliousness of Levinas thought is here rediscovered and used to challenge use our preconceptions of social, legal and individual responsibility.

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Marinos Diamantides is based at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Table of contents
Julia Ponzio: Politics not left to itself: recognition and forgiveness in Levinas philosophy. Marty Slaughter: Levinas and devotional trauma Simon Critchley: How Levinas ethics is compromised by his lack of reflection on his politics and how it can be salvaged Marinos Diamantidis: Transgressing Levinas C.F Alford: Levinas and the Limits of Political Theory Tina Chanter: Hands that Give and Hands that Take: The Politics of the Other in Levinas Howard Caygill: Levinas' silence Desmond Manderson: Here I am: illuminating and delimiting responsibility Drucilla Cornell: The Right to Die and an Ethics of Death. Bryan Schroeder: Politics and transcendence