Essential Vulnerabilities: Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other by Deborah Achtenberg

Rereading Ancient Philosophy

Essential Vulnerabilities: Plato and Levinas on Relations to the Other

Deborah Achtenberg

224 pages paperback

2 editions

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In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas's idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. To the contrary, she agrees, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Whi...

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