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Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0485115662
ISBN13: 9780485115666
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Aug 3 2001
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.48 Depth: 9.46
Language: English
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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