Essential Vulnerabilities : Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other /

"In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas's idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different. Though the...

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Main Author:	Achtenberg, Deborah, 1951- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Plato. Levinas, Emmanuel. Self (Philosophy) Other (Philosophy) Other minds (Theory of knowledge) PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Alterite. Moi (Philosophie) Electronic books.
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