The Meaning and Source of Levinas's Notion of the Face : An Approach from His Jewish Works

This paper discusses the concept of the face in Levinas's Totality and Infinity. The face of the Other plays important role in Levinas's thinking, and makes a connection between religion and ehics. In this paper, I explore a source of the face in his Jewish work, Difficult Freedom. This approach will show that the face of the Other means the voice of the social justice