Dying the Human Condition

This essay consists in a Levinasian reading of Leo Tolstoy’s The death of Ivan Ilyich in an attempt to accomplish two objectives simultaneously. First, Tolstoy’s novella beautifully illustrates and therefore unlocks the complex dynamics at play in Levinas’s ethical metaphysics. Both Levinas and Tols...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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