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  <title><![CDATA[Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series)]]></title>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book has shone in my memory for such a long time as a book everyone should read because it explored the ideas of 'self' and 'other' with such ease. This is a kind of ease one develops when one has seen first hand the horrors that ensue from the fragmentation of morality. Levinas was a s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9646817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is full of rich and provocative insights.  Levinas developed his philosophical insights--a blend of themes of phenomenology with ideas from Bergson and German Idealism--during the same period that Heidegger and Sartre were developing their philosophies, and there is strong resonance betwee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1429217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Levinas applies Phenomenology to Buber to argue that Ethics begins with the intrusion of the face of another human into the confines of consciousness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Levinas's first major treatment of his conception of ethics as first philosophy.  At its center is a view of the ethical relation as fundamentally asymmetrical, due to the dual height and destitution of the Other.  An ethics founded on the face-to-face, Levinas runs into trouble when he attempts to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/968391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly, an incredibly difficult book--but definitely one well worth the effort.  Levinas presents so much to contemplate in a way I find other (alter, perhaps) than in most other forms of expression.  The ideas presented here must be continually remembered and reflected on, in my view--very highl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5436407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Levinas has rekindled my faith that it is possible to act ethically and be a generally &quot;good&quot; person without subscribing to any particular codification of religion. Amazing book, if you can get through it. It made my head hurt!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/> Levinas has put love into philosophical terms. I don't mean romantic love. I mean love as in the giving of oneself for the well-being of all others. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best philosophical response to World War II, and the only real counterpoint to Heidegger among their many contemporaries.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A complicated and thoughtful contemplation of suffering and responsibility. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I read this, I realize how my understanding of Levinas is partial.  ]]></body>
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