Saying Peace: Levinas, Eurocentrism, Solidarity

Offers an immanent critique of Levinas's core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.

Levinas's big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or "eurocentric," view of other cultural traditions. In Saying Peace, Jack Marsh explores this problem, testing the coherence an...