Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas

This volume of essays, all but one previously unpublished, investigates the question of Levinas's relationship to feminist thought. Levinas, known as the philosopher of the Other, was famously portrayed by Simone de Beauvoir as a patriarchal thinker who denigrated women by viewing them as the paradigmatic Other. Reconsideration of the validity of this interpretation of Levinas and exploration of what more positively can be derived from his thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271021144
• ISBN13: 9780271021140
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"