Radical Ethics and Social Theory

Abstract

Emmanuel Levinas has challenged the traditional questions of philosophy, namely, the definition of the Other by the Same and ontology, and has presented radical studies on ethics. His works open up new possibilities in the further developments of both philosophy and social theory. Zygmunt Bauman is a scholar of the postmodernist perspectives on ethics. After examining Levinas' and Bauman's works, the outline of a social theory sensitive to ‘ethical questioning’ is presented.