By Way of Interruption: Levinas and the Ethics of Communication

Published in 2005 | 294 pages | paper | ISBN: 978-0-8207-0376-3 Reviews: “Pinchevski's text is admirable and should provoke a larger and reenergized scholarly discussion about new understandings of the ethics of human communication. Levinas's notions of passivity, the face, and asymmetrical discourse acquire new meaning and resonance in Pinchevski's important contribution and 'interruption' to the fields of communication studies, rhetoric, ethics, and philosophy.” — Choice “Pinchevski's focus on proximity, contact, and intimacy present interesting possibilities regarding the strange mix of utopian impulses, intimacy, and rebellious disregard for others found in a variety of digital rhetorics.” — H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online “Pinchevski's book avoids the sort of excessive abstraction typical of Anglo-American philosophy and is admirably tied to very real social and political concerns. It is, after all, first and foremost a work of ethics, one with obvious practical impl