Levinas' writings on the political express a dual urgency: the first concerns the issue of violence and war, which seem to dominate politics. The second, no less urgent philosophically, is the question of the legitimacy of the political, which cannot arise solely from violence or the displacement of that violence. In the texts gathered here from over 40 years, Emmanuel Levinas addresses the themes of totalitarianism, war, and human vulnerability, as well as justice, human rights, and the legitimacy of political institutions. He writes about the hopes and dangers he associates with the state of Israel, and more generally about the difficult convergence of the Jewish claim for justice and the Greek categories of the political. From a new perspective.