“This is going to be awkward,” our professor said.
The lecture was about ethicist Emmanuel Levinas’ idea of seeing God in “the face of the other.” To illustrate his point, our professor proceeded to pace up and down the rows of desks, stopping at each student and making eye contact with such intensity and for such a duration of time that it was, indeed, awkward. But, we were seen, known, attended to, treated not just as distant students but as uncomfortably-close human persons.
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