A review by callmeevan
Ethics and Infinity: Conversations with Philippe Nemo by Emmanuel Levinas

5.0

Seems a really good introduction and overview of Levinas's thought in his own words; provocative and helpful interviewer. Covers a lot of ground and unveils what I understand to be some key claims across his work - about the space between Being and nothingness (otherwise than being), subjectivity/interiority, determinate being as a refuge from the horrifying "there is," the glory given the infinite in one's taking responsibility for the other, the inadequacy of vision or knowledge in real encounters with the Other's face, the solitude of being, the exceptions to this solitude in eros and filiation...and so on. Not an easy thinker to delve into, but this little work gives a feel for the man and his thought as he reflects on his own writing.