Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Topolski Anya
• Pubblicazione: London, : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 172
• Soggetto topico: Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975; Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Political and social views; Political ethics; Political science -- Philosophy; Political ethics - Philosophy; Political science; Political Science; Law, Politics & Government; Political Science Theory
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Note; Key Abbreviations for Works by Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas; Works by Hannah Arendt; Works by Emmanuel Levinas; Introduction; Notes; I: Bridges and Breaks; Chapter One: Biographical and Philosophical Intersections; Life Stories; Philosophical Parallels; Notes; Chapter Two: Divided by Disciplinary Confines?; Insurmountable Tensions?; What Is the Political?; What Is Ethics?; A Political Ethics; Notes; II: On Hannah Arendt; Notes; Chapter Three: On the Political; Totalitarianism: The Loss of the Human World; The Political: Creating a World Together ; Plurality: A New Principle for the PoliticalNotes; Chapter Four: An Ethics from Within the Political; The Criterion for an Arendtian Ethics; Rethinking the Vita Contemplativa in Political and Ethical Terms; Responsibility: Bridging the Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa; Assessing Arendt's Political Ethics; Notes; III: On Emmanuel Levinas; Notes; Chapter Five: Levinas's Ethics; From Ontology to Ethics; Ethics as First Philosophy; Responsibility for the Other; Notes; Chapter Six: An Ethical Politics; The Criterion for Levinas's Politics; Post-Foundational Judaic Politics ; Is Levinas's Ethical polis Enough?Notes; IV: From Plurality and Alterity to Relationality; Chapter Seven: From Arendt and Levinas to Relationality; Introducing Background Elements into Relationality; Experience and the Phenomenological Approach; Wrestling with Heidegger; The Judaic Contribution to Relationality; From Alterity and Plurality to Relationality; Notes; Chapter Eight: The Promise and Pitfalls of Relationality; Relationality: Putting the Pieces of the Puzzle Together; Towards a Politics of Relationality; Notes; Works Cited; Related Works; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span>By bringing Hannah Arendt's politics into dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas' ethics, this book develops an approach to the political that is relational, inclusive, and empowering. </span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>
• Altri titoli varianti: Reframing the Boundaries
• Titolo autorizzato: Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality
• ISBN: 1-78348-342-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826354703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political