On Escape: de l'Évasion

by Emmanuel Levinas

Book Overview

First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it. Beginning with an analysis of need not as lack or some external limit to a self-sufficient being, but as a positive relation to our being, Levinas moves through a series of brilliant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804741409
• ISBN13: 9780804741408
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.9"