Hello, and welcome to Overthink, the podcast where your two favorite philosophy professors
bring big ideas into everyday life.
I'm David Pena Guzman.
And I'm Ellie Anderson.
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Today, we're doing one of our Closer Look episodes where we dive deeply into a particular text.
Today, that text is from a philosopher that I spent a lot of my 20s working on, Emmanuel Levinas.
And we are going to be reading his essay on escape, or we read it.
We're going to be talking about it.
If you want to read it, we recommend it.
This pairs well with it.
We 're also hoping that it can be interesting,
even if you 're just a listener, because I have found that some of my favorite podcasts involve people
talking about books that I actually have n't read.
But this is a short essay that you can easily read.
Well, I have worked on Levinas a lot less than you,
Ellie, but he has been really influential for me in thinking about ethics and the relationship
specifically between phenomenology and ethics.
And one thing that I can not not point out is that I 've been surprised to see Levinas pop up sometimes in the most unexpected
of places in contemporary philosophy as a point of reference for thinking about ethics.