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Prophetic Politics You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. S e r i e S i n C o n t i n e n ta l t h o u g h t editorial Board Ted Toadvine, Chairman, University of Oregon Elizabeth A. Behnke, Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body David Carr, Emory University James Dodd, New School University Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University José Huertas-Jourda, Wilfrid Laurier University† Joseph J. Kockelmans, Pennsylvania State University William R. McKenna, Miami University Algis Mickunas, Ohio University J. N. Mohanty, Temple University Dermot Moran, University College Dublin Thomas Nenon, University of Memphis Rosemary Rizo-Patron de Lerner, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima Thomas M. 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Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Prophetic Politics .................................. emmanuel levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering PhiliP J. harold ohio University Press athens You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 www.ohioswallow.com © 2009 by Ohio University Press All rights reserved To obtain permission to quote, reprint, or otherwise reproduce or distribute material from Ohio University Press publications, please contact our rights and permissions department at (740) 593-1154 or (740) 593-4536 (fax). Printed in the United States of America Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper ∞ ™ 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harold, Philip J. Prophetic politics : Emmanuel Levinas and the sanctification of suffering / Philip J. Harold. p. cm. — (Series in continental thought ; no. 37) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8214-1895-6 (hc : alk. paper) 1. Lévinas, Emmanuel. I. Title. B2430.L484H376 2009 194—dc22 2009028435 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. For David Walsh and Keith Woods You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. There will be horror on all sides, and, of course, more false than sincere. People fear only what directly threatens their personal interests. I’m not speaking of the pure souls: they will be horrified and will blame themselves, but they will not be noticeable. —Bishop Tikhon, Dostoevsky’s Demons Don’t answer questions for God. —a devout Rabbi You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. 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Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xiii Introduction xv From Ethics to Politics xvi The Need for a Prophetic Politics xxvi 1 Death, Escape, and Thinking beyond Being 1 Ethics and the Prophetic 6 Heidegger, Death, and Sacrifice 12 2 Play and Responsibility 23 The Third 24 Maturity and Self-Delimitation 31 Two Forms of Play 35 Existence and Existents 38 The “There Is” 44 Position 50 Bergson 53 3 The Philosophical Ethics of Totality and Infinity 61 A Caricature of a Position 61 The “Source” of Ethics 62 Rosenzweig 65 The Ethical Turn 67 Totality and Infinity 75 The Feminine 86 Adieu to Totality and Infinity 92 4 The Turning Point: “Violence and Metaphysics” 95 The Worst Violence 95 The Self-Contradiction of Totality and Infinity 97 Derrida 100 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher.
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