Jacques Derrida - Levinas: Violence and Metaphysics (1964) - Part 1

Introduction and Part 1 of Violence and Metaphysics: An Essay on the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas, in Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (1978). Originally published as 'Violence et métaphysique: Essai sur la pensée d'Emmanuel Levinas', Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 3-4 (1964).
I understood about 10% of this. But here is Levinas: 'If the other could be possessed, seized, and known, it would not be the other. To possess, to know, to grasp are all synonyms of power.'
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