Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life

Name: Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Law, Relationality and the Ethical LifeAgamben and Levinas\nAuthor(s): Tom Frost\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138726307, 978-1138726307\nSynopsis\nThis first book-length study into the influence of Emmanuel Levinas on the thought and philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, Law, Relationality and the Ethical Life, demonstrates how Agambens immanent thought can be read as presenting a compelling, albeit flawed, alternative to Levinass ethics of the Other. \n\nThe publication of the English translation of The Use of Bodies in 2016 ended Giorgio Agambens 20-year multi-volume Homo Sacer study. Over this time, Agambens thought has greatly influenced scholarship in law, the wider humanities and social sciences. This book places Agambens figure of form-of-life in relation to Levinasian understandings of alterity, relationality and the law. Considering how Agamben and Levinas craft their respective forms of embodied existence .