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About Me
- Bruce Young
- I'm married to the marvelous Margaret Blair Young, a fine and accomplished writer and a remarkable person. We have four children and four grandchildren (plus five recently added step-grandchildren!). I teach English at Brigham Young University, including courses on Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis, and world literature. Besides my family, my faith, and the topics just listed, my passions include the Beatles and the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. I currently have a number of blogs: "The Face of the Other" (for an explanation of the title, see here, here, and here); "Welcoming the Other", and several on politics and related matters (including here).
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Haven't a clue. But I am going to link this site to my own blog anyway.
Good to have you here, Garry. As "older singer" (aka Margaret) noted, "The Face of the Other" refers to Emmanuel Levinas, an important twentieth-century philosopher and a major interest of mine. But what does "the face of the Other" mean and what does it have to do with this guy named Levinas?
For an answer, see http://english.byu.edu/faculty/youngb/levinas/face.pdf or http://english.byu.edu/faculty/youngb/levinas/face.rtf. For a longer answer (i.e., an introduction to the thought of Levinas), see http://english.byu.edu/faculty/youngb/levinas/guide.htm.
Good to be here, too. And you can expect me to be a frequent visitor -- unless, of course, I am forcibly evicted at some point. :-)
Garry, I can pretty much guarantee you won't be evicted. Your presence is much appreciated. By the way, I've been learning a bit about how blogs work--that is, how they become interactive, with multiiple people involved--and apparently one of the conditions that help that happen is for the blogger to post relatively frequently (so there's something new when visitors drop in) but not too frequently (which might clutter the page). My problem is that I don't have time to post very often. But I figure the blog will remain reasonably interesting if I do something about once a week and then, between posts, get occasional visitors and comments to which I can respond.
Bruce,
I've responded to your comments (here and here) on my own blog (click here).
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