In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century

by Robert Bernasconi

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"