PHI 8310
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Levinas
A study of Levinas' principal works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, emphasizing such issues as ethics as first philosophy, the question of the other, sensibility, substitution, and responsibility; the influence of Levinas on Derrida and Lyotard and the question of postmodernism and ethics; Levinas' critique of Heidegger.