Levinas, Ethics and Law:

A provocative account of how Levinas' ethics can help us understand our relationship with lawEmmanuel Levinas's philosophy of ethics has frequently attracted attention amongst legal scholars, but he remains a divisive and often enigmatic contributor to this field. He has been read within c...

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Beteilige Person: Stone, Matthew (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474400770
Zusammenfassung:A provocative account of how Levinas' ethics can help us understand our relationship with lawEmmanuel Levinas's philosophy of ethics has frequently attracted attention amongst legal scholars, but he remains a divisive and often enigmatic contributor to this field. He has been read within contexts as varied as human rights, private law, refugee law, and on the nature of judicial reasoning. This book explores what might unite such apparently diverse applications of his ideas, and in doing so considers the challenge of law's ethical relationship with the other. In addition to asking how Levinas's ethics can inform legal problems, the book also examines the ways in which the modern legal edifice has a deceptive tendency to close itself off from the ethical experience. In particular, literatures on biopolitics suggest that law is increasingly complicit in reductive determinations of how we understand ourselves and others. Levinas's most penetrating insight might not, therefore, lie in the law's instrumentalisation of his ethics, but instead in the way his ethics trace a human encounter that escapes law
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (184 pages)
ISBN:9781474400770
DOI:10.1515/9781474400770