Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction
6. Reflections on the Philosophy of Hitlerism 3
7. Is Liberalism All We Need? Prelude via Fascism 12
8. Essays
9. Beyond Rational Peace: On the Possibility/Necessity of a Levinasian Hyperpolitics 27
10. Hands That Give and Hands That Take: The Politics of the Feminine in Levinas 48
11. Levinas in the Key of the Political 63
12. ‘The Politics’ by Levinas: Towards a ‘Critical’ Political Philosophy 78
13. Hemorrhage and Filiality: Towards a Fecundation of the Political 97
14. Levinas and Alterity Politics 111
15. Public Transgressions: Levinas and Arendt 127
16. Can Fig Trees Grow on Mountains? Reversing the Question of Great Politics 148
17. Levinas, Nietzsche, and Benjamin’s ‘Divine Violence’ 172
18. From Escape to Hostage 191
19. The Ethics and Politics of the Handshake: Levinas, Merleau-Ponty, and Nancy 221
20. Strangers and Slaves in the Land of Egypt: Levinas and the Politics of Otherness 246
21. Levinas’s Reflections on State, Revolution, and Utopia from a Jewish Perspective 262
22. Levinas, the Messianic, and the Question of History 271
23. From a Memory beyond Memory to a State beyond the State 285
24. Aporia and Messiah in Derrida and Levinas 307