Emmanuel Levinas and the Politics of Non-Violence

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Introduction. Ethical Subject and Political Praxis: A Theoretical Background

Chapter I. Levinas’ Ethicopolitics: Beyond the Western Liberal Tradition

i. Levinas and the Political: General Discussion

ii. An Alternative Reading of Ethics and Politics in Levinas

iii. The Problem of the Third and Justice in Levinas: The Third and Justice: Two Conceptions of Justice in Levinas; Me, the Other, the Third and (In)Justice: Ethical Justice and Liberatory Political Praxis

iv. Levinas and Liberalism: Levinas and the Liberal Conception of the Individual; Levinas and the Liberal Peace; Levinas and the Liberal Economic Arrangement

v. Conclusion

Chapter II. Radical Passivity, the Face, and the Social Demand of Justice

i. Oneself: Subject as Radical Passivity of the Sensible: Maternity as a Praxis Grounded in Radical Passivity

ii. The Irreducible Other: The Face As A Social Demand for Justice

iii. Self and the Other: Peace With the Other As Being Responsible for the Other’s Suffering and Death

iv. Conclusion

Chapter III. Substituting Praxis and Political Liberation

i. Substitution in Radical Passivity

ii. Substituting Praxis as a Liberatory Struggle

iii. The Contours of Substituting Praxis: Substituting Praxis: Liberation in Pre-Intentional Proximity; Substituting Praxis: Liberation and Freedom; Substituting Praxis: Liberation and the Spirit of Sincerity and Youth; Substituting Praxis: Liberation and (Non)Violence - The Third as Persecutor

iv. Conclusion

Chapter IV. Levinas and Gandhi: Liberatory Praxis as Fear for the Other

i. Levinas and Gandhi: Can There Be A Dialogue?

ii. Parallels between Levinas and Gandhi: The Subject in Levinas and Gandhi; Gandhian Selfless Service and Levinasian Irreplaceable Responsibility

iii. Entry Into Non-Violence Through Eschatology

iv. Gandhi: Non-Violent Revolt and Eschatological Peace

v. Levinas: The Event of Speech and Eschatological Peace: Ethical Love as the Principle of the Social and the Political; Political Opponent as Interlocutor

vi. Gandhi: Political Enemy as Interlocutor: Peaceful Struggle as Speech

vii. Liberation as Substitution: Fearing for the Other Instead of Fearing from the Other

vii. Conclusion

CONCLUSION

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