Saying Peace: Levinas, Eurocentrism, Solidarity

by Jack Marsh

Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or "eurocentric," view of other cultural traditions. In Saying Peace, Jack Marsh explores this problem, testing the coherence and adequacy of Levinas's central philosophical claims. Using a twofold method...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438482655
• ISBN13: 9781438482651
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"