Description
Levinas has been read, variously, as a theorist of judicial activism, a champion of radical human rights, an illuminator of the inner soul of private law and a proponent of natural law theory. Matthew Stone asks what unites such apparently disparate applications of Levinas' ideas about law and, in doing so, explores the ethical challenge of law's relationship with 'the Other'. Stone ultimately offers a sceptical conclusion on the capacity of such an ethics to be invested in legal institutions and instead proposes that Levinas' ethics should be embodied in the perpetual critique of law.
Author: Matthew Stone
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/22/2018
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781474432542
ISBN10: 1474432549
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Jurisprudence
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy | Political
Author: Matthew Stone
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/22/2018
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781474432542
ISBN10: 1474432549
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Jurisprudence
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Philosophy | Political
About the Author
Matthew Stone is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex. He is co-author of New Critical Legal Thinking: Law and the Political (2012) and is author of numerous journal articles on critical legal theory.