I've tried to work this one out for myself, but the info is conflicting - possibly a transatlantic thing. Basically, I'm writing an honours thesis on a bloke called Levinas. So, in my text there's alot of reference to "Levinas's philosophy/theory/whatever". I've put off sorting this out till now, but until this point I always felt Levinas' was more correct than Levinas's. Which is right in this context? Or are both acceptable? I think Levinas's actually seems phonetically more accurate, if that makes a
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Hi, The usual way to do it is Levinas's. Clive
— Clive
Hi, The usual way to do it is Levinas's.
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