In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century

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In a world in which everything is reduced "to the play of signs detached from what is signified," Levinas asks a deceptively simple question: Whence, then, comes the urge to question injustice? By seeing the demand for justice for the other--the homeless, the destitute--as a return to morality, Levinas escapes the suspect finality of any ideology.Levinas's question is one starting point for In Proximity, a collection of seventeen essays by scholars...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0896724514

ISBN13:9780896724518

Release Date:July 2001

Publisher:Texas Tech University Press

Length:420 Pages

Weight:1.89 lbs.

Dimensions:1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Philosophy

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