Levinas : An Introduction

Davis's book has many merits. The style is spare, modest and clear. The scholarship is extremely accurate throughout, a task which is obviously helped by Davis's perfect knowledge of French, which enables him to comprehend and convey the singular quality of Levinas's prose. Davis's attention to the detail of Levinas's language is admirable and this is the first book I have read on Levinas in English that adequately explores the rhetorical dimension of his work. Davis manages to provide the reader with a systematic overview of Levinas's philosophical work ... he has a fine sense of what is philosophically at stake in Levinas's mature thought, and achieves this task of elucidation without passing over the textual complexities and even contradictions of Levinas's writing." The Times Literary Supplement "Excellent introduction." Le'ela "Easily accessible to the undergraduate audience." Radical PhilosophyDavis, Colin is the author of 'Levinas : An Introduction' with ISBN 9780745612621 and ISBN 0745612628.