The Proximity Between Levinas and Kant: The Primacy of Pure Practical Reason.(Critical Essay) From: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation | Date: September 22, 1999| Author: Atterton, Peter | COPYRIGHT 1999 Texas Tech University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

That to which we are alluding here seems to us suggested by the practical philosophy of Kant, to which we feel particularly close.

Levinas, "Is Ontology Fundamental?" (1)

In his only essay dedicated entirely to Kant, published in 1971 under the title "The Primacy of Pure Practical Reason," Levinas applauded the "great novelty" (2) of Kant's practical philosophy and its unique contribution to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Seven years later, Levinas comp...

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