Disputes in the "metaphysics" of ethico-political transformation : a re-assessment of the speculative philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas

My thesis contests a putative congruity between Derrida and Levinas concerning discussions of responsibility, ethics and otherness. It attends to the fundamental 'metaphysical' differences between the two with respect to ontology, language and historicity. Consequently, it foregrounds two...

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Main Author: McGettigan, Andrew
Published: Middlesex University 2006
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527104