CHAPTER 1. The Talmudic Readings

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. ABBREVIATIONS xi
4. NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS xv
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. CHAPTER 1. The Talmudic Readings 14
7. CHAPTER 2. Levinas’s Conception of Politics in the Talmudic Readings 30
8. CHAPTER 3. Levinas’s Critique of Social “Indifference” 45
9. CHAPTER 4. On the Necessity of Political Violence 55
10. CHAPTER 5. Evil as Injustice 64
11. CHAPTER 6. On Nature 80
12. CHAPTER 7. Levinas and the Modern State of Israel 95
13. CHAPTER 8. Hegelian Dialectics and the Question of Messianism 108
14. CONCLUSION. Levinas’s Concept of Laïcité 126
15. NOTES 137
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY 157
17. INDEX 169
18. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 173