The metaphysics of love
Subtitle: gender and transcendence in Levinas
By: Stella Sandford.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Lévinas, Emmanuel; Love; Sex; Transcendence (Philosophy)
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.