Being face to face creates a grail. The face-to-face relation is a concept in the French philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas’ thought on human sociality. It means that, ethically, people are responsible to one another in the face-to-face encounter. Lévinas says that the human face “orders and ordains” us. It calls the subject into “giving and serving” the Other. Face-to-face serves as the basis for his ethics and the rest of his philosophy. For Lévinas, “Ethics is the first philosophy.” He argues that the encounter of the Other through the face, reveals a certain poverty, which forbids a reduction to Sameness and…
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