The Problem with Levinas

by Simon Critchley

Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide range of academic and non-academic fields. Simon Critchley's aim in this book is to provide a less familiar, more troubling, and (hopefully) truer account of Levinas's work. A new dramatic method for reading Levinas is proposed, where the fundamental problem of his work is seen as the attempt to escape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198738765
• ISBN13: 9780198738763
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.6"