A Levinassian Perspective
by
Naud van der Ven
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Rational thought according to Levinas has the merit of making the world lucid and controllable. But at the same time it strips things and people of their identity and incorporates them in a homogenized rational order. Illusory, but nonetheless oppressive. Rationality’s totalitarian character can...