Margaret Atwood: Feminism and Fiction (review)
as solely responsible, what complications, what additional tortures this would involve." Emmanuel Levinas's notion of a radical responsibility for the other individual, his suggestion that the only suffering to which we may legitimately assign a meaning is our own, and that this assignment uniquely founds the possibility of an ethical basis for interhuman groups is not far from these words and complements René Girard's analysis of the sacrificial that Thomas Coustineau's current book so ably extends.