“…Our starting point is the way in which Lévinas treats the encounter with radical alterity, in a relationship in which the other constantly escapes us, but requires from us, never without traumatizing and frightening us, hospitality, donation and justice. It is not our intention to show here an empirical approach to the Levinasian notion of ethical encounter with alterity from the interpellation of the face, since this has already been done in other works BIONDI, 2016BIONDI, , 2017SOUZA;SOUZA;. Therefore, our methodological strategy is based on the critical systematization of the ethical dimensions that evolve the proximity, the approach and the communication with others in Lévinas's work. This study outlines, therefore, some relations between certain aspects of Lévinas' philosophy (1980Lévinas' philosophy ( , 1995Lévinas' philosophy ( , 2007Lévinas' philosophy ( , 2010Lévinas' philosophy ( , 2016, in particular his concept of an ethic of alterity and a relational concept of communication.…”