Abstract

The article is a description of Emmanuel Lévinas’ metaphysical-ethical thought in the context of relativistic-atheistic criticism by Alain Badiou. According to Badiou, Lévinas’ ethical concept, which refers to the radical, Infinite Otherness of another human being, is something absurd and impossible to implement. In the first part of the article I briefly present the most important assumptions of Lévinas. In the second part I present the critical arguments that Badiou made against Lévinas in his Ethics. In the last part, agreeing with the Lévinas’s perspective, I reject Badiou’s allegations, pointing out that agreement with Badiou means that violence has an ethical legitimacy.