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Article: Buber or Levinas? A response to Maurice Friedman
- Article from:
- Philosophy Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright DePaul University Winter 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Maurice Friedman has written defending Buber against Levinas (Philosophy Today, spring 2001), or trying to establish that at least when it comes to moral philosophy Levinas has not rendered Buber aufgehoben. Many of his points are well taken. Certainly, for instance, we look to Levinas in vain for discussion of some relation to the non-human creation we can "bend over with fervor," and Friedman is not the first to wish that Levinas had granted significant otherness to rocks and vegetables and animals.' One looks in vain in Levinas for a full-fledged and nuanced ethics of the sort Friedman wants and finds to some extent in Buber. In fact, since one looks in vain to Levinas for so many ...
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