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Alterity and Transcendence: Notes on Ethics, Literature and Testimony

Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Oregon Humanities Center, 2002)

In the first part of my essay I make some brief remarks on otherness and alterity as fundamental categories of an ethical discourse and on transcendence as a philosophical category related to a testimonial discourse. ...
Embodying Ethics: At the Limits of the American Literary Subject

Hediger, Ryan (University of Oregon, 2005-08)

This dissertation inquires into the ethical, embodied subjectivity in American literature since World War II. It demonstrates how texts that register embodiment operate at the limits of the human and the literary, exposing ...
The Priority of the Human in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

Moyer, Derek Harley, 1981- (University of Oregon, 2010-06)

Emmanuel Levinas has recently been given much attention for the resources that his writing could provide for an ethics of the non-human. While some commentators dismiss the humanistic biases of Levinas' analyses in favor ...