The Pre-Text of Ethics: On Derrida and Levinas

ISBN-13: 9780820451237 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 196 str.

Klein, Sherwin

Opis

The Pre-Text of Ethics is a very readable introduction to both Derrida and Levinas, focusing on the latter s influence on deconstruction, especially on the meaning of justice and the notion of the gift. Without deconstructing the beauty of Levinas s vision, Diane Moira Duncan aims to show that Levinas s views on women contradict his general project, which aims to defend heteronamy against philosophical narcissism. This book represents an organic overview of the development of Levinas s thought and situates a critique of his phenomenology of the feminine face and philosophy of woman in this context. It makes a significant contribution to the question of the -ethics of deconstruction-."

O autorze

The Author: Diane Moira Duncan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Duquesne University in 1998.