Death and Responsibility: The "Work" of Levinas

State University of New York Press (1999)
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Richly informed by readings of Heidegger, Derrida, and Blanchot, the author argues that the notion of responsibility at the heart of Levinas's notion of ethics is intimately dependent upon his account of death

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