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Author Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Title Alterity and transcendence / Emmanuel Levinas ; translated by Michael B. Smith
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Description xxiv, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Series European perspectives (Columbia University Press)
European perspectives
European perspectives (Columbia University Press)
European perspectives.
Contents Preface / Pierre Hayat -- I. The other Transcendence. 1. Philosophy and Transcendence. 2. Totality and Totalization. 3. Infinity -- II. Philosophy of Dialogue and First Philosophy. 4. Beyond Dialogue. 5. The Word I, the Word You, the Word God. 6. The Proximity of the Other. 7. Utopia and Socialism -- III. Peace and Right. 8. The Prohibition against Representation and 'The Rights of Man'. 9. Peace and Proximity. 10. The Rights of the Other Man -- IV. Conversations. 11. The Philosopher and Death. 12. Violence of the Face
Notes Translation of Altérité et transcendence, Fata Morgana, 1995
First publiished in the UK by The Athlone Press, 1999
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and index
Subject Other (Philosophy)
Self.
Transcendence (Philosophy)
LC no. 98047784
ISBN 0231116500 alkaline paper
0231116519 paperback
Other Titles Altérité et transcendence. English