Title: The Metaphysics of Love
First published: 2000
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
Subjects: Transcendence (Philosophy), Love, Sex, Transcendentalism, Criticism and interpretation
People: Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995)
LC classification: B2430.L484 S255 2000