该书是著名现象学家列维纳斯的代表作,是其前期思想的核心,对现象学有着深远的影响。在该书中,列维纳斯把西方传统的存在论哲学视作一种总体哲学。这种哲学以作为总体的存在为最终的意义来源,抹杀作为个体的个人的意义与价值,充满了对于他者的暴力。与这种总体哲学相反,列维纳斯通过对面容的现象学分析表明,在面容中呈现出来的他人标志着绝对的外在性,是真正的无限,不 The book is a famous phenomenologist Levinas masterpiece, is the core of its early thoughts, phenomenology has a profound impact. In the book, Levinas views the Western traditional ontological philosophy as a general philosophy. This philosophy, with its overall existence as the ultimate source of meaning, erases the meaning and value of the individual as an individual and is full of violence against the Other. In contrast to this general philosophy, Levinas’s phenomenological analysis of face shows that the presence of others in face signifies absolute externalities, which are truly infinite and not