Alterity and Transcendence

by Emmanuel Levinas

Book Overview

Internationally renowned as one of the great French philosophers of the twentieth century, the late Emmanuel Levinas remains a pivotal figure across the humanistic disciplines for his insistence--against the grain of Western philosophical tradition--on the primacy of ethics in philosophical investigation. This first English translation of a series of twelve essays known as Alterity and Transcendence offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231116519
• ISBN13: 9780231116510
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"