Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Tahmasebi-Birgani, Victoria, 1961- author.

Title Emmanuel Levinas and the politics of non-violence / Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
©2014

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Ethical Subject and Political Praxis: A Theoretical Background -- 1 Levinas' Ethicopolitics: Beyond the Western Liberal Tradition -- 2 Radical Passivity, the Face, and the Social Demand for Justice -- 3 Substituting Praxis and Political Liberation -- 4 Levinas and Gandhi: Liberatory Praxis as Fear for the Other
Summary In this book, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani provides the first examination of the applicability of Emmanuel Levinas' work to social and political movements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lévinas, Emmanuel fast
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 1869-1948 gnd
Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995 gnd
Subject Nonviolence -- Political aspects
Nonviolence -- Moral and ethical aspects
Nonviolence -- Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Nonviolence -- Moral and ethical aspects
Nonviolence -- Philosophy
Ethik
Gewaltlosigkeit
Politische Philosophie
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442694989
144269498X