num_pages: 180
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas
titlecomplete: The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 6
publisher: The Athlone Press