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(1991) Totality and infinity, Dordrecht, Springer.
As classically conceived, the idea of transcendence is self-contradictory. The subject that transcends is swept away in its transcendence; it does not transcend itself. If, instead of reducing itself to a change of properties, climate, or level, transcendence would commit the very identity of the subject, we would witness the death of its substance.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9342-6_19
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Levinas, E. (1991). Transcendence and fecundity, in Totality and infinity, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 274-277.
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