Alterity And Transcendence; Author: Levinas, Emmanuel; Author: Translator Smith, Michael B.; Paperback

Author: Levinas, Emmanuel; Author: Translator Smith, Michael B.
European Perspectives; Paperback
Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231116519

This first English translation of a series of twelve essays offers a unique glimpse of Levinas defining his own place in the history of philosophy. In todays world, where religious conceptions of exalted higher powers are constantly called into question by theoretical investigation and by the powerful influence of science and technology on our understanding of the universe, has the notion of transcendence been stripped of its significance? In Levinass incisive model, transcendence is indeed alive -not in any notion of our relationship to a mysterious, sacred realm but in the idea ofour worldly, subjective relationships to others.