Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling

by Will Buckingham

Book Overview

The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship with literature and with storytelling. At times, Levinas is a teller of powerful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472581598
• ISBN13: 9781472581594
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"