FIRST EDITION. Half-title + TP + 1 Dedication page + 9 - [192] + 193 - [194] = Table des Matieres + [195]-[196] = Du Même Auteur + 1 blank leaf + [199] = Printing Information, Octavo. First Edition. Levinas Explains and Defends His Concept of "Otherness".Combining elements from Heidegger's philosophy of "being-in-the-world" and the tradition of Jewish theology, Levinas has evolved a new type of ethics based on a concept of "the Other" in two different but complementary aspects. He describes his encounters with those philosophers and literary authors (most of them his contemporaries) whose writings have most significantly contributed to the construction of his own philosophy of "Otherness": Agnon, Buber, Celan, Delhomme, Derrida, Jabès, Kierkegaard, Lacroix, Laporte, Picard, Proust, Van Breda, Wahl, and, most notably, Blanchot. Original printed covers with some soiling and marks to the front cover and an old (original?) small price tag to the rear cover. Otherwise, a bright, tight and clean copy. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.