The Fertility of Dialogue: Levinas and Plato on Education
In several places in Totality and Infinity, Levinas criticizes Socratic education for being emblematic of the totalizing tendency of Western thought. Levinas finds in Socratic maieutics another instance of the reduction of exteriority to interiority, heteronomy to autonomy, and the Other to the Same...
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Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2015-10-01
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Series: | PhaenEx: Journal of Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture |
Online Access: | https://phaenex.uwindsor.ca/index.php/phaenex/article/view/4045 |