“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...

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Main Author: Dorit Lemberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Athens Institute for Education and Research 2020-10-01
Series:Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts
Online Access:https://www.athensjournals.gr/humanities/2020-7-4-2-Lemberger.pdf