On Escape: de l'Évasion

By Emmanuel Levinas

Book Overview

First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741409
• ISBN13: 9780804741408
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"