Time and the Other

Time and the Other contains a series of essays presented as lectures in 1946-47 at the Collge Philosophique in Paris along with additional essays dealing with time sociality and ethics. This work represents along with Existence and Existents the first formulation of Levinass own philosophy later more fully developed in other works. Beginning with an analysis of existence without existents Time and the Other then describes the origination of the subject and moves through its encounter with another person.