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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Herzog, Annabel, author.

      Title: Levinas’s politics : justice, mercy, universality / Annabel Herzog.

      Other titles: Haney Foundation series.

      Description: 1st edition. | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020] | Series: Haney Foundation series | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019031232 | ISBN 9780812251975 (hardcover)

      Subjects: LCSH: Lévinas, Emmanuel—Political and social views. | Lévinas, Emmanuel—Ethics. | Talmud—Political aspects. | Political ethics—Philosophy. | Jewish ethics.

      Classification: LCC B2430.L484 H47 2020 | DDC 320.092—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019031232

      For my children

      Mon rapport au Talmud est donc un rapport européen, vous comprenez, c’est très important.

      And so, my relationship to the Talmud remains very European; please understand, it is very important.

      —E. Levinas

      To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)

      CONTENTS

       List of Abbreviations

       Note on Translations

       Introduction

       Chapter 1. The Talmudic Readings: From Literature to Politics

       Chapter 2. Levinas’s Conception of Politics in the Talmudic Readings

       Chapter 3. Levinas’s Critique of Social “Indifference”

       Chapter 4. On the Necessity of Political Violence

       Chapter 5. Evil as Injustice

       Chapter 6. On Nature

       Chapter 7. Levinas and the Modern State of Israel

       Chapter 8. Hegelian Dialectics and the Question of Messianism

       Conclusion. Levinas’s Concept of Laïcité

       Notes

       Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      ABBREVIATIONS

A and A’	Derrida, J. Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas. Paris: Galilée, 1997. Trans. P. A. Brault and M. Naas, Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999).
ADV and BTV	Levinas, E. L’Au-delà du verset: Lectures et discours talmudiques. Paris: Minuit, 1982. Trans. G. D. Mole, Beyond the Verse: Talmudic Readings and Lectures (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
AE and OB	Levinas, E. Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence. Paris: Livre de Poche, 1990. Trans. A. Lingis, Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998).
AHN and ITN	Levinas, E. A l’heure des nations. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1988. Trans. M. B. Smith, In the Time of the Nations (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
AT and AT’	Levinas, E. Altérité et transcendance. Montpellier: Fata Morgana, 1995. Trans. M. B. Smith, Alterity and Transcendence (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999).
BPW	Levinas, E. Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings. Ed. A. T. Peperzak, S. Critchley, and R. Bernasconi (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.)
CDC	Levinas, E. Œuvres 1: Carnets de captivité et autres inédits. Ed. R. Calin and C. Chalier. Paris: Grasset & Fasquelle/IMEC, 2009.
CP	Levinas, E. Collected Philosophical Papers of Emmanuel Levinas. Trans. A. Lingis. Dordrecht: M. Nijhoff, 1987.
DD and OG	Levinas, E. De Dieu qui vient à l’idée. Paris: Vrin, 1998. Trans. B. Bergo, Of God Who Comes to Mind (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998).
DE and OE	Levinas, E. De l’évasion. Paris: Livre de Poche, 1998. Trans. B. Bergo, On Escape (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003).
DL and DF	Levinas, E. Difficile liberté. Paris: Livre de Poche, 1988. Trans. S. Hand, Difficult Freedom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).
DO	Levinas, E. De l’oblitération, entretiens avec F. Armengaud. Paris: Éditions de la Différence, 1990.
DSS and NTR	Levinas, E. Du sacré au saint. Paris: Minuit, 1977. Trans. A. Aronowicz, Nine Talmudic Readings (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
ECM and AVM	Derrida, J. “En ce moment même dans cet ouvrage me voici.” In Psyché: Inventions de l’autre. Paris: Editions Скачать книгу 1 2 3 4 5 > В конец