“Like a Battering-Ram”: The Place of Language in Levinas’s Thought
The writings of Levinas address several existential questions, which relate to the primacy of ethics as “first philosophy,” and set up language as a system that enable ethical behavior in a concrete manner. However, there is no separate discussion of language, so it might seem that it derives fro...
Main Author: | Dorit Lemberger |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Athens Institute for Education and Research
2020-10-01
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Series: | Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts |
Online Access: | https://www.athensjournals.gr/humanities/2020-7-4-2-Lemberger.pdf |
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