What is it about?
It challenges the dominant religious and transcendentalist readings of Levinas. This article reclaims the erotic and libidinal core of his ethics, arguing that the desire for the Other is a divine, transformative force that ultimately shatters binary gender divisions
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Why is it important?
This article uniquely bridges Levinasian ethics with psychoanalytic libido theory to argue that the ethical relation has its genesis in erotic drive for alterity, a move that not only challenges theological interpretations of Levinas but also transcends the heterosexual framework that limits most feminist readings.
Perspectives
It is anticipated that its release will lead to a revolution in traditional Levinasian scholarship.
Abey Koshy
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit
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This page is a summary of: Is Alterity Libidinal? Queering the Levinasian Other, September 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.30965/9783846769065_024.
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