Given an account of Levinasian ethics, as it is characterized by Butler in her text ‘Precarious life’. Explain, particularly, what Levinas means by the ‘face’ and indeed how the prohibitions ‘thou shalt not kill’ seems inscribed on that very visage.

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Given an account of Levinasian ethics, as it is characterized by Butler in her text ‘Precarious life’. Explain, particularly, what Levinas means by the ‘face’ and indeed how the prohibitions ‘thou shalt not kill’ seems inscribed on that very visage.