列维纳斯所谓女性是他者的论点,与波伏瓦等人的批评相反,是对男性中心主义的有力批评。他主张,我们不能把女性视为男性的相关项,而应当努力从女性自身的特点出发来看待女性。女性是绝对的,是差异性质素本身,不能被融摄入同一性的总体之内。植根于性别差异的二元社会性概念中的男性与女性不是在两性关系中合而为一,而是真正成其为二,这是本真伦理关系的生成。 Levinas’s argument that women are the other, contrary to Beauvoir’s criticisms, is a powerful criticism of male-centrism. He argues that we can not regard women as a related item of men, and we should try our best to treat women from their own characteristics. Women are absolute, the quality of difference itself, and can not be integrated into the overall identity. Men and women, rooted in the binary gender concept of gender difference, are not one in the relationship between the sexes, but one in the other. This is the formation of a true ethical relationship.