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Publication Date: 2019-Feb
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Positing Alterity, Positing Metaphysics: A Short Note on Alistair Miller on Levinas
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v53 n1 p214-223 Feb 2019
In 'Levinas: Ethics or Mystification?' (Miller, 2017), Alistair Miller presents a searing indictment of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and a dismissal of claims for its importance for education. He provides a summary account of Levinas's philosophy and, in relation to this, refers briefly to a number of authors who have related Levinas's work to education. This account is at fault, however, in fundamental ways, and this leads to errors in the conclusions that he draws. The present short paper does not attempt to address these problems in the round but rather focuses on a particular aspect of his phrasing in constructing the account, taking this as a significant pointer to the nature of the misinterpretation as a whole.
Descriptors: Metacognition, Educational Philosophy, Phrase Structure, Ethics, Role of Education, Authors, Language Usage, Misconceptions, Criticism
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