Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas''s thought has covered over both the basis and the details of his philosophical project--a metaphysics which affirms the necessity to think of an unqualified transcendence as a first principle.
Sandford''s book is at the same time a powerful feminist critique of both Levinas''s gendered philosophical categories and the attempt to reclaim aspects of this philosophy for feminist theory.
