The fragility of the passage from the ethics to politics is highlighted by Gillian Rose in her meditation on post-modernism, The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society. For Rose, the absence of mediations such as law, institutions and idealities (i.e., negativity, nature, freedom) in Levinas renders this passage problematic.¹ Although Rose devotes only one chapter to Levinas, her critique there demonstrates Levinas' kinship with post-modern philosophy in general. For her, what is characteristic of post-modernism is its inability to conceive a ground of meaning beneath the individual and the state, the ethical life and political institutions.² In her analysis, Levinas holds a position representative of the post-modern dilemma. This Chapter will consider the aporias Rose discerns in prophecy's passage to a just politics, effectuated under the aegis of the Infinite.