A Survivor’s Ethics: Levinas’s Challenge to Philosophy
Author(s)
Eskin, Michael
Abstract
In this essay, I trace Levinas’s ethics, focusing in particular on his uneasy relation to and problematic place within the “Western” philosophical tradition, on his idiosyncratic ethical functionalization and conceptualization of language, and, finally, on his valorization of poetry as an outstandingly salient manifestation of and testimony to the ethical.
