Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement

Gudrun M. Grabher

earliest edition we have, 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, 2019 214 pages

"Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinas' ethics of the face. Drawing on Levinas' concern with the holistic dimension of the face as an encounter with the other's 'whole person' and the se...

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Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement edition · 2019 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781351617581
Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement edition · 2019 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781351617598
Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement edition · 2019 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781351617604
Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement edition · 2019 · Taylor & Francis Group · 9781315110950
Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement edition · 2019 · Taylor & Francis Group · 214 pages · 9781138086661

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