Overview
Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle. Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.
- | Author: Stella Sandford
- | Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- | Publication Date: Aug 03, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 180 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0485115662
- | ISBN-13: 9780485115666
