The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas

by Stella Sandford

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.

Genres: Philosophy

180 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

i was wandering through the stacks of the library during my angsty first year of grad school, and randomly picked this puppy up. i ended up being into it.