Eating the Other: Levinas's Ethical Encounter

Hirst, Angela (2005-01-01). Eating the Other: Levinas's Ethical Encounter PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics and School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, The University of Queensland.

 
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Author(s) Hirst, Angela
Thesis Title Eating the Other: Levinas's Ethical Encounter
School, Centre or Institute School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics and School of Geography, Planning and Architecture
Institution The University of Queensland
Publication date 2005-01-01
Thesis type PhD Thesis
Supervisor(s) M. Boulous-Walker
Total pages 153
Collection year 2005
Language eng
Subjects 440103 Ethical Theory
420307 Consumption and Everyday Life
440104 Applied Ethics (incl. Bioethics and Environmental Ethics)
780199 Other
Abstract/Summary In this thesis, I explore how Levinas's description of ethics and the emerging ethical (hu)man involves spatial avoidance. In particular, I examine the food and eating strategies that Levinas gives the emerging ethical (hu)man so that he might avoid his responsibility to the non-(hu)man world. Following on from this, I argue that the reason Levinas's ethical encounter is a dystopia, rather than an everyday reality, is due, in part, to the success of the everyday spatial strategies of avoidance open to humans, which are akin to those Levinas himself uses to separate the not-yet ethical human from the threats of the non-human world.
Keyword(s) Levinas
food production
food
eating
ethics
spatial theory
feminist theory
multicultural theory
postcolonial theory
 
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