Publication details
E.Lévinas
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| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter provides an explanation of the ethical conception of French philosopher Emmanuel Levinás. The chapter analyses the main categories and problems of his ethics of responsibility. Levinas derives the primacy of his ethics from the experience of the encounter with the Other. For him, the irreducible relation, the epiphany, of the face-to face, the encounter with another, is a privileged phenomenon in which the other person's proximity and distance are both strongly felt. At the same time, the revelation of the face makes a demand, this demand is before one can express, or know one's freedom, to affirm or deny. One instantly recognizes the transcendence and heteronomy of the Other. |