5. The Law of the Same: Levinas and the Biopolitical Limits of Liberalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Part I. The Importance of Ethics
5. 1. Introduction: The Law’s Other 3
6. 2. The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas 20
7. Part II. Ethics and Law
8. 3. Can Law Be Ethical? 57
9. 4. Adjudication, Obligation and Human Rights: Applying Levinas’s Ethics 82
10. Part III. Ethics Against the Law
11. 5. The Law of the Same: Levinas and the Biopolitical Limits of Liberalism 111
12. 6. Law, Ethics and Political Subjectivity 141
13. Bibliography 160
14. Index 174