Origins of the OtherThe French Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (19061995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon free prose, Samuel Moyn provides a first and controversial history of the makings of his thought, and especially of his trademark concept of "the other." Restoring Levinas to the intellectually rich and combative atmosphere of