Philip J. Harold is an assistant professor of political science at Robert Morris University, Pennsylvania.
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Prophetic Politics
Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering
By Philip J. Harold
In Prophetic Politics, Philip J. Harold offers an original interpretation of the political dimension of Emmanuel Levinas’s thought. Harold argues that Levinas’s mature position in Otherwise Than Being breaks radically with the dialogical inclinations of his earlier Totality and Infinity and that transformation manifests itself most clearly in the peculiar nature of Levinas’s relationship to politics.Levinas’s