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(1991) Totality and infinity, Dordrecht, Springer.
Metaphysics or transcendence is recognized in the work of the intellect that aspires after exteriority, that is Desire. But the Desire for exteriority has appeared to us to move not in objective cognition but in Discourse, which in turn has presented itself as justice, in the uprightness of the welcome made to the face. Is not the vocation to truth to which traditionally the intellect answers belied by this analysis? What is the relation between justice and truth?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9342-6_5
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Levinas, E. (1991). Truth and justice, in Totality and infinity, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 82-101.