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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Ethics and the face

Emmanuel Levinas

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.

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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.