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Philosophy Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law

by (author) Desmond Manderson

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2006
Category
Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773530416
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773531017
    Publish Date
    Jun 2007
    List Price
    $40.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773575653
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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