Levinas and the “Matter” of Poverty

“Poverty” is a term Levinas uses to describe the face-to-face encounter and the Other all through his corpus. Scholars regularly use this term, but no research has shown its origin nor that Levinas has a concept of poverty. This paper addresses both of those questions through an analysis of an early...

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Main Author: Rothhaar, Timothy W. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2018]
In: Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 9, Issue: 12, Pages: 1-11
Further subjects:B Economics
B Phenomenology
B Ethics
B Poverty
B Continental Philosophy
B Politics
B Vulnerability
B Development Ethics
B Humanism
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