Essays on Levinas and law
Subtitle: a mosaic
By: [edited by] Desmond Manderson.
Contributors: Manderson, Desmond.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780230202375
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel; Ethics; Law -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genesis; title: Introduction / Desmond Manderson Exodus; title: Getting down to cases : can a levinasian ethics generate norms? / Diane Perpich; title: Levinasian ethics and the concept of law / Jonathan Crowe; title: Questions for a reluctant jurisprudence of alterity / Nick Smith; title: Productive ambivalence, levinasian subjectivity, justice, and the rule of law / Jill Stauffer; title: Leviticus; title: Verdict and sentence cover and Levinas on the robe of justice / Robert Gibbs; title: 'Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occurs' : Levinas and the law of torts / Desmond Manderson; title: To judge a vegetable : levinasian ethics and the 'morality of law' / Marinos Diamantides; title: Numbers; title: Subjecthood and alterity in international law / Sebastien Jodoin; title: The lesser violence than murder and the face-to-face : 'illegal' immigrants stand over American law / Marie Failinger; title: Negative witnessing and the perplexities of forgiveness : Polish Jewish contexts after the Shoah / Dorota Glowacka; title: Deuteronomy; title: Anarchic law / Simon Critchley (with a response by Desmond Manderson); title: Exceptional justice, violent proximity / Jesse Sims; title: Rethinking justice with Levinas / Sarah Roberts-Cady.