The problem of political foundations in Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas / Gavin Rae.

Author
Rae, Gavin, 1982- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Description
xx, 270 pages ; 22 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
    • The Return of the Theological
    • Carl Schmitt and Emmanuel Levinas
    • The Argument Developed
    • Structure of the Book
    • 2. The Theology of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology
    • The Historical Turn from Theology
    • The Turn Back to Theology: Political Theology as Religion?
    • The Complexio Oppositorum
    • 3. The Political Aspect of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology
    • The History of Depoliticization
    • The Concept of the Political
    • The Intensity of the Political
    • Difference and the Political
    • The Other and the Political
    • 4. Schmitt, Violence, and the Political
    • War and the Political
    • Classical, Real, and Absolute Enmity
    • The Political and Real Enmity
    • 5. Schmitt, Sovereignty, and the Political Decision
    • Order from Chaos
    • The Constituting Power
    • Homogeneity and the Political Decision
    • The Theology of the Sovereign Decision
    • The Faith of the Norm
    • 6. Levinas and the Ethical Foundations of the Political
    • Ontology, Violence, and the Political
    • Ontology and Egoism
    • Ontology and Epistemology
    • Ontology and Ethics
    • Overcoming Egoism: Levinas's Ethical Project
    • 7. Levinas and the Face of the Ethical
    • The Ego and the Other
    • The Phenomenon of the Face
    • The Responsibility of the Hostage
    • Derrida's Critique
    • Responding to Derrida
    • 8. Levinas and the Return of the Political
    • The Third
    • Justice and the State
    • Two Sources of Law
    • 9. Prophetic Politics: Levinas and Political Theology
    • Justice and the Ethical State
    • The Structure of the Ethical State
    • The Redemption of Prophetic Politics
    • Judaism and Levinas
    • The Notion and State of Israel.
    ISBN
    • 9781137591678 ((print))
    • 1137591676 ((print))
    • 1137591684
    • 9781137591685
    LCCN
    2016951857
    OCLC
    947145676
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