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Drew M. Dalton: Longing for the other: Levinas and metaphysical desire

Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2009, 313 pp, paperback, US $25, ISBN 978-0-8207-0425-8

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Notes

  1. Levinas (1985). Hereafter EI.

  2. Levinas (1996).

  3. Human existence and the world, that is, are independent in their existence, but dependent upon divine contraction for this independence (199).

  4. Levinas (1994), my emphasis.

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  • Levinas, Emmanuel. 1985 (1982). Ethics and infinity: Conversations with Philipe Nemo, 90 (trans: Cohen, Richard A.). Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press.

  • Levinas, Emmanuel. 1996 (1951). “Is ontology fundamental?” In Emmanuel Levinas: Basic philosophical writings, ed. Adriaan T. Peperzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi, 5–6, 10. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

  • Levinas, Emmanuel. 1994 (1988). In the time of nations, 171 (trans: Smith, Michael B.). Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

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Yates, C. Drew M. Dalton: Longing for the other: Levinas and metaphysical desire. Cont Philos Rev 45, 325–332 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-012-9216-y

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