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Product Description: No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action than 'resistance'. In its various manifestations - from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and violent repression of the Occupy movement - concepts of resistance are becoming ubiquitous and urgent...read more

Product Description: Howard Caygill systematically explores for the first time the relationship between Levinas' thought and the political. From Levinas' early writings in the face of National Socialism to controversial political statements on Israeli and French politics, Caygill analyses themes such as the deconstruction of metaphysics, embodiment, the face and alterity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Judgment has emerged as a site for the interdisciplinary exploration of questions of rationality, law and difference. As a consequence, Kant's Critique of judgment-power is prominent in current theoretical debate. Caygill (fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford) challenges the parameters of this debate through a historical analysis of the third Critique which combines deconstructionist and materialist approaches to the history of philosophy...read more