full flowering in
the feminine, a term of the same rank as consciousness but of opposite meaning."
I suppose that Levinas does not forget that woman, too, is aware of her own consciousness, or ego. But it is striking
that he deliberately takes a man's point of view, disregarding the reciprocity of subject and object. When he writes that
woman is mystery, he implies that she is mystery for man. Thus his description, which is intended to be objective, is in
fact an assertion of masculine privilege…
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