Building on the work of Emmanuel Levinas this groundbreaking book puts the phenomenological
paradigm into a new perspective. Overcoming the focus on self-reflection of the thinking
subject and instead arguing for the importance of sociality as a responsibility for the Other
this new approach is based on inter-subjectivity and introduces a social dimension in
phenomenology. This also allows for a different interpretation of the notion of justice which
in this context sits in the space between the one the other and the third before settling
into any relation to the law. In the vast area inhabited by more or less distant others moral
responsibility is implemented through the establishment and maintenance of just institutions.
