Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement: Singing Through the Mask

by Gudrun M Grabher

Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz, and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the face. Drawing on Levinas' concern with the holistic dimension of the face as an encounter with the other's whole person and the sense of moral obligation that this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367670682
• ISBN13: 9780367670689
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"