The Metaphysics of Love (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780485121636)

Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle.

Sandford's book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas's gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.

Author: Stella Sandford
ISBN-10: 0485121638
ISBN-13: 9780485121636
Publisher: Athlone Press
Language: English
Published: 08/03/2001
Pages: 180
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.24w x 0.57d