Documenting our Landscape

Emmanuel Levinas once argued, “My manner of approaching the question [of ethics] is, in effect, different. It takes off from the idea that ethics arises in the relation to the other and not straightaway by a reference to the universality of a law. The ‘relation’ to the other [wo]man is unique–and in this way, precisely, as absolutely other–would be, here, the first significance of the meaningful.”