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‘Ethics of ethics, law of laws’: Kierkegaard, Lévinas and the aporia of substantive identity

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Brothers, R. ‘Ethics of ethics, law of laws’: Kierkegaard, Lévinas and the aporia of substantive identity. SOPHIA 38, 54–68 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02786332

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