Levinas, ethics and law /

Levinas has been read, variously, as a theorist of judicial activism, a champion of radical human rights, an illuminator of the inner soul of private law and a proponent of natural law theory. Matthew Stone asks what unites such apparently disparate applications of Levinas' ideas about law and...

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Main Author: Stone, Matthew, 1981-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the law's other
  • The ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
  • Can law be ethical?
  • Adjudication, obligation and human rights : applying Levinas's Ethics
  • The law of the same : Levinas and the biopolitical limits of liberalism
  • Law, ethics and political subjectivity