Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2006
- Subjects
- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773575653
- Publish Date
- May 2006
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Description
Without compromising the integrity of either Levinas' poetic evocations of our spirit or the law's dense descriptions of our society, Manderson brings the two into constructive dialogue. For the student of Levinas, the author offers an understanding of the implications and difficulties involved in applying ethics to law - major issues in continental philosophy. For the student of law, he provides a powerful framework through which to reconceptualize duty of care, the law of negligence, and the nature of legal judgment itself - major issues in legal theory.
About the author
Desmond Manderson is professor and Canada Research Chair in law and discourse, McGill University, and author of Songs Without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice and Courting Death: The Law of Morality.