The ethics of Emmanuel Levinas /

The ethics of Emmanuel Levinas /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Perpich, Diane.
Imprint:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
Description:	xvi, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cultural memory in the present
Subject:	Lévinas, Emmanuel -- Ethics. Lévinas, Emmanuel. Responsibility. Other (Philosophy) Ethics. Other (Philosophy) Responsibility.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7302797

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ISBN:	9780804759427 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804759421 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780804759434 (pbk. : alk. paper) 080475943X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: But Is It Ethics?
1. Alterity: The Problem of Transcendence
2. Singularity: The Unrepresentable Face
3. Responsibility: The Infinity of the Demand
4. Ethics: Normativity and Norms
5. Scarce Resources? Levinas, Animals, and the Environment
6. Failures of Recognition and the Recognition of Failure: Levinas and Identity Politics
Notes
Works Cited
Index