Catering to Otherness: Levinasian Consumer Ethics at Restaurant Day

Ethics, Alterity, and Psychotherapy: A Levinasian Perspective

Current psychologies of religion reflect the modernist context in which they are situated. Religion is reduced to what is researchable, generalizable, individual and “thin.” This essay suggests that a psychology of religion which takes seriously the implications of Emmanuel Levinas’s emphasis on ethics and the alterity of the Other would result in a different model of psychotherapy. Levinas’s v...

Towards a Re-interpretation of Business: A Levinasian Approach to Ethics in Business

s for papers to be presented at a conference to be held at the Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy, University of Leicester 27-29 October 2005

The Ethics of Direct-to-consumer Testing

Barriers and facilitators of consumer use of nutrition labels at sit-down restaurant chains.

OBJECTIVE Numerous localities have mandated that chain restaurants post nutrition information at the point of purchase. However, some studies suggest that consumers are not highly responsive to menu labelling. The present qualitative study explored influences on full-service restaurant customers’ noticing and using menu labelling. DESIGN Five focus groups were conducted with thirty-six consum...

The Illusion of Democracy in Online Consumer Restaurant Reviews

Food has long served as a form of cultural capital, and historically it was an elite few food critics who held the power to ascribe status to dining experiences. The rise of social and digital media arguably allows anybody to adopt the role of critic. Lowered barriers associated with digital technologies, coupled with the contemporary ‘foodatainment’ boom have opened the floodgates for amateurs...