Open AccessLosing Face
Author(s) -
Maria O’Connor
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2253-5853
pISSN - 2253-5845
DOI - 10.9791/ajpanz.2012.24
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , relation (database) , economic justice , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , sociology , political science , law , computer science , linguistics , data mining
The welcoming of the face and the work of justice — which conditions the birth of truth itself — are not interpretable in terms of disclosure. The relation between the same and the other is not always reducible to knowledge of the other by the same, nor even to the revelations of the other to the same, which is already fundamentally different from disclosure. (Lévinas, 1961/1969, p. 28)