Bringing Hannah Arendt's politics into dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas' ethics, this book develops an approach to the political that is relational, inclusive, and empowering.


About the Author:

Anya Topolski is a FWO postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

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Introduction: In Search of a Politics of Relationality

Part I: Bridges and Breaks

1. Biographical and Philosophical Intersections

2. Divided by Disciplinary Confines / Part II: On Hannah Arendt

3. The Political: From Ashes to Hope

4. An Ethics from Within the Political / Part III: On Emmanuel Levinas

5. Levinas' Ethics of Alterity

6. A Politics from Within Ethics

Part IV: From Plurality and Alterity to Relationality

7. From Arendt and Levinas To Relationality

8. The Promise and Pitfalls of Relationality

A. Works Cited

B. Related Works

Index