A Levinasian meditation on Shakespeare’s "Macbeth"

ENNicholas Doenges provides a Levinasian study of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which he interprets and explicates those aspects of the play that Levinas in Existence and Existents and Time and the Other uses as literary attestation for his remarks on insomnia, shame, horror, death, and paternity. Surprisingly little has been written on Levinas and Shakespeare. Doenges’s detailing of the reasons for why Macbeth is the “most Levinasian” of all dramas has done much to rectify the situation, and helps explain why Levinas should have remarked in Time and the Other that it seemed to him that the whole of Western philosophy is only a meditation of Shakespeare.