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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSimply put, this is the best book on Levinas and political philosophy that is available in English. . . This book is essential reading not only for Levinas scholars, but for all political philosophers. Highly Recommended. not yet published
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Table of ContentsPreface
Part I. Overview
1. Tears the Civil Servant Cannot See: Ethics and Politics
2. Judaism, Zionism, and the State of Israel
Part II. Philosophical Articulation
3. The Third Party: Transcendental Ethics and Realistic Politics
4. Ethics as Critique
5. Responsibility for Others and the Discourse of Rights
6. Liberalism and Democracy
Part III. Ethics, Politics, and Zionism
7. Teaching Prophetic Politics: Ethics and Politics in Levinas's Talmudic Lessons
8. Zionism and the Justification of a Jewish State
9. Ethics, Politics, and Messianism
10. Levinas's Notorious Interview
Part IV. Defense
11. Levinas and His Critics
Conclusion
Notes
Index