Quick question: I've been trying to think about Levinas' face/ethics in relation to Derrida's "Force of Law," and I am wondering where/when the face 'does its work.' I'm in Los Angeles, and don't have the text with me, but from what I remember, in "Force of law" Derrida sets up three movements toward justice (1) Suspention (epoché) of the Law (2) Ghost of undecidability (3) Urgency to act. If that's a fair reading/remembering, when does Levinasian ethics do its work? Is it present in all three steps of these? Does it cause me to suspend the law because ethics happens without a 'third'? Does it cause the haunting of undecidability because I have no way of relating to the Other? Does it demand that I act, as it puts me in the accusative asking me where I am and demanding that I "do not kill" or whatever else it might say? Does it do its work before all of this? Or is comparing these two just a category mistake?
thank you,
Mike
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