Description
Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical work on `the Other' offers a challenge to the discipline of anthropology that claims knowledge of the human. For Levinas, the `secrecy' of subjectivity - a fundamental facet of the human condition - demands an ethics of ignorance and not-knowing; the mystery of otherness is only to be approached through `inspiration'. Can anthropology meet a Levinasian challenge if it would define itself as a science as well as a humanistic documentation of social life? This book endeavours to take Levinasian and anthropological precepts equally seriously and offers a radical conclusion.
Binding: Hardback
Binding: Hardback