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The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

By Stella Sandford

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0485121638, 9780485121636, 9781847144454
LCC
B2430.L484 S255 2000
Open Library ID
OL6782317M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10445445 bytes)
Pages
180\188
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project - a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle. Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.

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