Essential vulnerabilities : Plato and Levinas on relations to the Other /

"In Essential Vulnerabilities, Deborah Achtenberg contests Emmanuel Levinas's idea that Plato is a philosopher of freedom for whom thought is a return to the self. Instead, Plato, like Levinas, is a philosopher of the other. Nonetheless, Achtenberg argues, Plato and Levinas are different....

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Main Author:	Achtenberg, Deborah, 1951- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Series:	Rereading ancient philosophy.
Subjects:	Lévinas, Emmanuel. Plato. Self (Philosophy) Other (Philosophy) PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book