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(1999) Levinas between ethics and politics, Dordrecht, Springer.
The fragility of the passage from the ethics to politics is highlighted by Gillian Rose in her meditation on post-modernism, The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society. For Rose, the absence of mediations such as law, institutions and idealities (i.e., negativity, nature, freedom) in Levinas renders this passage problematic.1 Although Rose devotes only one chapter to Levinas, her critique there demonstrates Levinas' kinship with post-modern philosophy in general. For her, what is characteristic of post-modernism is its inability to conceive a ground of meaning beneath the individual and the state, the ethical life and political institutions.2 In her analysis, Levinas holds a position representative of the post-modern dilemma. This Chapter will consider the aporias Rose discerns in prophecy's passage to a just politics, effectuated under the aegis of the Infinite.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2077-9_12
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Bergo, B. (1999). Gillian Rose's critique of prophetism and politics in Levinas, in Levinas between ethics and politics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 258-276.
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