ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I return to Totality and Infinity, bringing the elements of representation, justice and alterity together in a discussion of the question of the relation of ethics and justice. I argue that the face to face relation contains the idea that the truth of representation is a product of a demand for justice, or in other words that there is an awakening to the question of justice in the face to face. I shall show that Levinas’ claim that ethics is justice is not a reduction of one to the other but introduces an irreducible twosidedness into the ethical relation as a response to the singular other and an attestation to and affirmation of the whole of humanity.
