'I Am Here', Abraham Said: Emmanuel Levinas and Anthropological Science

By Nigel Rapport

Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical work on 'the Other' offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the 'secrecy' of subjectivity - a fundamental facet of the human condition - demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through 'inspiration'. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805394703
• ISBN13: 9781805394709
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"