De-onto-theologizing Otherness

Emanuel Levinas is hailed as a thinker of otherness. He developed his thought though a creative critique of Martin Heidegger. Due to the work of Levinas, Heidegger appears to be a thinker of sameness that desires to eliminate all shades of otherness. But is that really so? Is Levinas thinking the other within onto-theology that Heidegger wishes to overcome?...