Repository | Book | Chapter
(2009) Essays on Levinas and law, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
War and the political assume a proximity in Levinas’s thought that were it recognized would prove extremely uncomfortable for liberal readers accustomed to keeping war — as the alleged pathology of civility — separate from peace. The proximity of war and politics is a thought that brings Levinas closer to the thought of Clausewitz and Carl Schmitt than to the liberal ethical theory issued from Kant.1
Publication details
Full citation:
Sims, J. (2009)., Exceptional justice, violent proximity, in D. Manderson (ed.), Essays on Levinas and law, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 217-239.
This document is unfortunately not available for download at the moment.