{"product_id":"prophetic-politics-philip-j-harold-9780821418956","title":"Prophetic Politics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eProphetic Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePhilip J. Harold\u003c\/b\u003e offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas's thought. Harold argues that Levinas's mature position in \u003ci\u003eOtherwise Than Being\u003c\/i\u003e breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier \u003ci\u003eTotality and Infinity\u003c\/i\u003e and that transformation manifests itself most clearly in the peculiar nature of Levinas's relationship to politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLevinas's philosophy is concerned not with the ethical per se, in either its applied or its transcendent forms, but with the source of ethics. Once this source is revealed to be an anarchic interruption of our efforts to think the ethical, Levinas's political claims cannot be read as straightforward ideological positions or principles for political action. They are instead to be understood \"prophetically,\" a position that Harold finds comparable to the communitarian critique of liberalism offered by such writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor. In developing this interpretation, which runs counter to formative influences from the phenomenological tradition, Harold traces Levinas's debt to phenomenological descriptions of such experiences as empathy and playfulness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProphetic Politics\u003c\/i\u003e will highlight the relevance of the phenomenological tradition to contemporary ethical and political thought-a long-standing goal of the series-while also making a significant and original contribution to Levinas scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip J. Harold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821418955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821418956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2009 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2010 pg. 5","brand":"Philip J. Harold","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44809636118783,"sku":"9780821418956","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ec9ab53e-2285-4e65-af2b-211a5365aa92.jpg?v=1707927050","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/prophetic-politics-philip-j-harold-9780821418956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}