Levinas's idea of ethics as a relation of responsibility to the other person has become a highly influential and recognizable position across a wide range of ac

"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philoso

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. This book is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Levin

This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.

In Discovering Levinas, Michael L. Morgan shows how this thinker faces in novel and provocative ways central philosophical problems of twentieth-century philoso