Essays on Levinas and Law

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Genesis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Desmond Manderson

      Pages 3-17

3. Exodus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Getting Down to Cases: Can a Levinasian Ethics Generate Norms?

      • Diane Perpich

      Pages 21-38

   3. Levinasian Ethics and the Concept of Law

      • Jonathan Crowe

      Pages 39-54

   4. Questions for a Reluctant Jurisprudence of Alterity

      • Nick Smith

      Pages 55-75

   5. Productive Ambivalence: Levinasian Subjectivity, Justice, and the Rule of Law1

      • Jill Stauffer

      Pages 76-91

4. Leviticus

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93

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   2. Verdict and Sentence: Cover and Levinas on the Robe of Justice

      • Robert Gibbs

      Pages 95-110

   3. ‘Current legal maxims in which the word neighbour occurs’: Levinas and the Law of Torts

      • Desmond Manderson

      Pages 111-127

   4. To Judge a Vegetable: Levinasian Ethics and the ‘morality of law’

      • Marinos Diamantides

      Pages 128-144

5. Numbers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Subjecthood and Alterity in International Law

      • Sébastien Jodoin

      Pages 147-161

   3. The Lesser Violence Than Murder and the Face-to-Face: ‘Illegal’ Immigrants Stand Over American Law

      • Marie A Failinger

      Pages 162-179

   4. Negative Witnessing and the Perplexities of Forgiveness: Polish Jewish Contexts After the Shoah

      • Dorota Glowacka

      Pages 180-199

6. Deuteronomy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Anarchic Law

      • Simon Critchley

      Pages 203-216

   3. Exceptional Justice, Violent Proximity

      • Jesse Sims

      Pages 217-239

   4. Rethinking Justice with Levinas

      • Sarah E. Roberts-Cady

      Pages 240-255

This collection brings together major writers and major works on what Emmanuel Levinas means to law, and injects Levinas' provocative ethics right into the heart of living law, radically changing our understanding of both.

• concept
• Emmanuel Lévinas
• ethics
• international law
• Judaism
• knowledge
• Levinas
• living
• migrant
• migrants
• mosaic
• Polis
• Shoah
• subject
• violence

• Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada

  Desmond Manderson

SIMON CRITCHLEY is Professor of Philosophy, New School of Social Research, New York, USA JONATHAN CROWE is a Lecturer in the T. C. Beirne School of Law and a Fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, University of Queensland, Australia MARINOS DIAMANTIDES is a Reader in Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MARIE A. FAILINGER is a Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law, Minnesota, U.S.A ROBERT GIBBS is a Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada DOROTA GLOWACKA teaches critical theory and Holocaust studies in the Contemporary Studies Programme, University of King's College, Halifax, Canada SÉBASTIEN JODOIN is an IBA Fellow in the Appeals Chamber of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia as well as a Legal Research Fellow at the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law DIANE PERPICH is Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Clemson University, USA SARAH ROBERTS-CADY is an Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, USA JESSE SIMS is a doctoral candidate at The New School for Social Research in New York City, USA NICK SMITH is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of New Hampshire, USA JILL STAUFFER is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at John Jay College/CUNY in New York City, USA.

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