Unsaying the Other: Allegory and Irony in Emmanuel Levinas's Ethical Language

Ewa Rychter

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing
Country
Germany
Published
1 January 2004
Pages
170
ISBN
9780820473161

Unsaying the Other: Allegory and Irony in Emmanuel Levinas’s Ethical Language

Ewa Rychter

The problem of signifying the other within the logocentric language occupies an important place in Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics. (Un) Saying the Other examines the ways in which Levinasian discourse - the discourse always already partaking of ontological injustice - enables the ethical articulation of otherness. The author explores the unfolding of ethical expression both opened and troubled by the allegorical and ironic ruptures of the logocentric language. Reflecting on the philosophical complications incumbent in the potentially infinite process of interrupting the ontological language, the book aruges for the responsible rethinking of the ethical call to unsay.

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