What does levinas's transcendence mean?

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What does levinas's transcendence mean?

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We can say that, for Levinas, transcendence is a movement by, or

toward, something that is not-me, whether it is outside me in a world, or discovered in me as an

affective disruption.This strange negotiation of otherness, and the Husserlian heritage of an irreducible

‘self’ together imply that there is a minimal subjective leaning in Levinas as he develops

his ontology–in deliberate contrast to the ontology of Heidegger. And, as we will see, transcendence

proves to be an enigma in Levinas.