Synopsis
This volume contains two short works by Levinas. "Proper Names" treats a wide range of modern writers and thinkers, including Buber, Derrida, Kierkegaard and Proust. "Mr Blanchot" is a sympathetic consideration of this modern French writer.
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“Perhaps the names of persons whose saying signifies a face—proper names in the middle of all these common names and commonplaces—can resist the dissolution of meaning and help us to speak.” —From the author’s Foreword
About the Author
Emmanuel Levinas is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Among his many books is Outside the Subject (Stanford, 1994).
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