The face, our most intimate feature, that which identifies us and simultaneously reveals us to the other, shares with the wound a closeness that Latin refused to conceal: vultus and vulnus almost coincide in a prodigious phonetic proximity, and in that coincidence lies an entire anthropology. To show one's face is to expose oneself; there is no face without exposure. Emmanuel Levinas took this to the extreme: the face of the other, in its defenseless nakedness, commands before a word is uttered and forbids us indifference. The person before us is not an object to be contemplated, but a call that demands a response.