Totality and Infinity

Name: Totality and Infinity
Author: Emmanuel Levinas

by Emmanuel Levinas

Ethics arguing otherness and infinity exceed total philosophical systems

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Emmanuel Levinas

Lithuanian-French philosopher whose encounter with the Other as the ground of ethics challenged Western philosophy's primacy of ontology. Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being are his major works. His ethics of responsibility toward the Other has influenced theology, social work, and postcolonial theory.

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