TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diane Moira Duncan
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Pre-Text of Ethics
T2  - On Derrida and Levinas
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1092749
N2  - The Pre-Text of Ethics is a very readable introduction to both Derrida and Levinas, focusing on the latter’s influence on deconstruction, especially on the meaning of justice and the notion of the gift. Without deconstructing the beauty of Levinas’s vision, Diane Moira Duncan aims to show that Levinas’s views on women contradict his general project, which aims to defend heteronamy against philosophical narcissism. This book represents an organic overview of the development of Levinas’s thought and situates a critique of his phenomenology of the feminine face and philosophy of woman in this context. It makes a significant contribution to the question of the «ethics of deconstruction».
KW  - Justice, Gift, Heteronomy, Woman, Deconstruction
LA  - English
ER  -