Abstract
The aim of this essay is to examine the status and promise of Emmanuel Levinas’s humanism for a posthuman and more-than-human age. I suggest that, even though Levinas’s approach partially reproduces classical forms of anthropocentrism, a careful reading of his writings on humanism uncovers surprising resources for thinking about ethics and relationality beyond human beings. I close by suggesting that one of Levinas’s early writings on ritual anticipates the need to adopt practices that reconfigure our habitual relations to the world as a whole, both human and more-than-human. As such, I argue that his work can be mined for important insights for reconstituting a genuinely post-anthropocentric form of life.
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