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OverviewEmmanuel 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 unites 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 how 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew StonePublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781474400763ISBN 10: 1474400760 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 30 July 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationMatthew Stone is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex. He is co-author of New Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political (2012) and is author of numerous journal articles on critical legal theory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |