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- adjective Of or relating to Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995),
French philosopher andTalmudic commentator .
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For Leach, the tension is ethical (in a Levinasian sense) because the failure to know or sympathize fully preserves the “irreducible alterity” of the person being observed (639).
Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008
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If emotions invite Lacanian analysis, feelings invite Levinasian ones in which we are aware that we are not the source of consciousness but are in a response mode, open to an otherness that exercises influence upon us.
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003
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This last point seems, to me, to be one of the key lessons of the ongoing polemic against Levinas, and against the conscription of Derrida into a Levinasian manner of thinking.
An und für sich danbarber 2010
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