Abstract
Emmanuel Levinas's insistence on the ethical priority of the other is vulnerable to being misread as a plea for selflessness and self-sacrifice. The author suggests an alternative ethics of non-hierarchical mutuality in which "substitution" and self-sacrifice are seen not as the heart of ethics, but as an emergency compromise ethic because of the breakdown of mutuality.
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