Michaela's review
Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas (Goodreads author!)
Michaela's review
rating:
recommended for: philosophers
status: Read in November, 2004 — I have a copy to sell/swap
rating:
recommended for: philosophers
status: Read in November, 2004 — I have a copy to sell/swap
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 survivor of the Shoa (better term than holocaust) and he saw whjat it was in the Nazi philosophy that allowed men and women to act immorally to the Jew, the Homosexual (evebn though many of the Nazis were), the Gypsy. Yoga later explained this to me in a different way, by different means, but I never found a western philospher whose writing on this topic I enjoyed so much.
I do recommend reading this in a class if you have an opportunity,as I did - but i think if you've taken a philosophy class before and you try reading on your own, you might get alot out of it.
I do recommend reading this in a class if you have an opportunity,as I did - but i think if you've taken a philosophy class before and you try reading on your own, you might get alot out of it.
