Emmanuel Levinas reformulation of subjectivity responsibility and thegood has radically influenced poststructuralist thought. Political and legaltheory however ... » 

Emmanuel Levinas reformulation of subjectivity responsibility and thegood has radically influenced poststructuralist thought. Political and legaltheory however have only marginally profited from his moral philosophy.Levinas theme of ones infinite responsibility for the other has often beenromanticized by some advocates of multiculturalism and natural justice.In this volume political theorists philosophers and legal scholarscritically engage with this idealization of Levinas ethics. The authors showthat his crucial formulation of the idea of the other in me does not offer aquick cure for todays nationalist racist and religious divides. Nor does hisnotion of anarchic responsibility provide immediate relief for the agony ofdealing with matters of life and death. The rebelliousness of Levinas thoughtis rediscovered here and used to challenge preconceptions of social legal andindividual responsibility. «