Resistance is a category that has so far been largely neglected in philosophical discourse, although its relevance becomes particularly complex when considered from ethical, phenomenological, epistemological, and gender-specific perspectives. As a boundary concept, resistance opens up new perspectives on questions of subjectivity, freedom, and social transformation. In engagement with Hobbes, Kant, and Hegel, it is especially in Levinas’s work that the complexity of ethical resistance becomes apparent: Levinas understands resistance not merely as refusal or limitation, but as an ethical attitude that makes space for the Other and enables responsibility.

This book is included in DOAB.