Abstract
I will in this article aim to highlight an issue in interpretation of Levinas: that his address to his central concern for the 'other' has been deemed inconsistent, yet might well have been approached unfairly. The issue arises in English scholarship, in that translation of Levinas' four terms for otherness was adapted into 'conventions' that changed over time. By closely tracking that difficulty of conventions over four decades, I will follow their consequences for reading of Levinas and some of their impact upon the Levinasian culture. In so doing I suggest a need to re-orientate approach to Levinas' central terms, to facilitate a harmonious study of Levinas.
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