Author: Roland A. Champagne
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: contemporaine, monographique, collection, francaise, litterature, franã§aise, rodopi, sollers, philippe, littã©rature
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 1996-01
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 904200004X
ISBN-13: 9789042000049

Reading a text is an ethical activity for Emmanuel Levinas. His moral philosophy considers written texts to be natural places to discover relations of responsibility in Western philosophical systems which are marked by extreme violence and totalizing hatred. While ethics is understood to mean a relationship with the other and reading is the appropriation of the other to the self, readings according to Levinas naturally entail relationships with the other. Levinas’s own writings are often frought with the struggle between his own maleness, the concerns of feminism, and the Judaism that m