Introduction: Levinas and Education: The Question of Implication

Reading the texts of Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) often means entering a strange and lyrical world, a world rife with poetic invocation and profound sensitivity to the suffering of humanity, a world where the philosophical cardinal points of ethics and ontology are repositioned in laying out the terms of responsible subjectivity. Such a world, in its poignant lyricism and philosophical reorientation, has brought us a language of ethics that is deeply resonant with the experience of human relationality