ABSTRACT
Chapter 7, Otherwise than Being. This chapter turns to Levinas’s last major work. Again, it first provides some background to the text, including for its relationship to Jacques Derrida’s influential commentary on Totality and Infinity. The chapter provides an organized summary of the differences between Otherwise than Being and Totality and Infinity, in so doing providing a clear and concise illustration of the movement and development of Levinas’s project. Key ideas from the text are explored. These include transcendence, the saying and the said, substitution, subjectivity, proximity, justice, and the neighbor.
