Levinas between Ethics and Politics: For the Beauty that Adorns the Earth

Introduction. Part One: Presentation and Analysis of the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. I. The Significance and Evolution of the Philosophy of Levinas. II. Levinas' Ethical Metaphysics. III. Levels of Being in Totality and Infinity. IV Intersubjectivity in Totality and Infinity. V. Election from `Beyond the Face' in Totality and Infinity: Intersubjectivity Grounded in a Figurative Biology. VI. The Passage from Totality and Infinity to Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence via Prophetism and Messianic Consciousness. VII. Subjectivity and Messianic Consciousness. VIII. Prophetism: From the Saying to the Said, or the Passage From Ethical Responsibility to Sociality. Part Two: Between Responsibility and Justice: A Criticism of the Passage From Ethics to Politics. IX. Ethics as First Philosophy and the Question of Its Universalization. X. The Universalization of Responsibility as a Passage from Ethics to a Politics of Questioning: Simon Critchley's Reading of Levinas. XI. Gillian Rose's Critique of Prophetism and Politics in Levinas. XII. The Unhappy Consciousness and Levinas' Ethics. Concluding Remarks. Selected Bibliography. Index.