... philosopher like Heidegger, the other person is just oneof many: the they’, the crowd, the mass, the herd. I know all about the other because the other is part of the mass that surrounds andsuffocates ... that the ethical relation of the self to the other corresponds to this picture, concretely fulfilling Introduction 15this model. One might say that the ethical relation to the face of the other ... ethics, conceived as the non-totalizable relation to the other human being, to politics, understood as the relation to what Levinas calls the third party (le tiers), that is, to all the oth-ers that...