All Annotations of Levinas and Buber: Transcendence and Society - from Sophia, 38, 2. (Sept-Oct, 1999) 69 - 92.[Preview]

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• preoccupied with distancing himself from
  Buber,
• asymmetry of relation
• Feuerbach who provided the
  initial impetus for Buber's elaboration of the "I-Thou" relation.
• Levinas' consistent criticism
  of Buber that the "I-Thou" is too spiritual would seem to
  be correct.
• priority and privacy of the subject and the intimacy in
  which the divine other is encountered.
• politics would contaminate intimacy.
• In making intimacy paradigmatic, justice is pushed to
  the margins.
• The model for justice becomes the same,
  not the other.