Book | Chapter
Ethics and the face
pp. 194-219
Abstract
Inasmuch as the access to beings concerns vision, it dominates those beings, exercises a power over them. A thing is given, offers itself to me. In gaining access to it I maintain myself within the same.
Publication details
Published in:
Levinas Emmanuel (1991) Totality and infinity: an essay on exteriority, 4th edn.. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 194-219
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9342-6_13
Full citation:
Levinas Emmanuel (1991) Ethics and the face, In: Totality and infinity, Dordrecht, Springer, 194–219.