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- Title: Levinas and the Other in Narratives of Facial Disfigurement
- Author : Gudrun M. Grabher
- Release Date : January 30, 2019
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Sociology,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2184 KB
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Offering readings of a range of fictional and biographical texts, including work by Richard Selzer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gaston Leroux, Willa Cather, Natalie Kusz, and Lucy Grealy, this book examines reactions to facially disfigured people on the basis of Emmanuel Levinasâ ethics of the face. Drawing on Levinasâ concern with the holistic dimension of the face as an encounter with the otherâs "whole person" and the sense of moral obligation that this instils in usâa sense that disfigurement disrupts by drawing our attention to the disfigurement as a "spectacle" and threatening to limit our view of that individualâthe author explores how we react to the facially disfigured and how we ought to react.