The Question of the Other: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

by Charles E. Scott

Book Overview

The core source of this book is the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Beginning with a chapter on speaking and the other, three lead chapters focus on Levinas' account of the face of the other. These chapters are followed by explorations of the ethics of dissemination in Derrida, the freedom of the other in Sartre, the cultural other in Husserlian phenomenology, the other as sexual difference in Irigaray and Nietzsche, the sublime in aesthetics, and the deconstruction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791400328
• ISBN13: 9780791400326
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.