Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview -- Tears the civil servant cannot see: ethics and politics -- Judaism, Zionism, and the state of Israel -- Philosophical articulation -- The third party: transcendental ethics and realistic politics -- Ethics as critique -- Responsibility for others and the discourse of rights -- Liberalism and democracy -- Ethics, politics, and Zionism -- Teaching prophetic politics: ethics and politics in Levinas's Talmudic lessons -- Zionism and the justification of a Jewish state -- Ethics, politics, and Messianism -- Levinas's notorious interview -- Defense -- Levinas and his critics.

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