Prophetic politics
Subtitle: Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering
By: Philip J. Harold.
Series: Series in continental thought -- no. 37; Series in Continental thought -- 37.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780821418956
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Death, escape, and thinking beyond being; title: Play and responsibility; title: The philosophical ethics of totality and infinity; title: The turning point : "violence and metaphysics"; title: Tradition and finite freedom; title: The political reversal of substitution; title: Justice and incommunicable suffering.