Abstract: This paper provides an account of Levinas’s contribution to the discourse on multiculturalism. It argues that the recognition of what he calls as the ethical appeal of the other’s face is the necessary starting point in discussions relating to the issue of cultural pluralism. Demands for the recognition of the dignity of each individual can no longer rely on a credible notion of subjectivity and freedom. An individual’s worth is not to be grounded in the idea of autonomy but instead in the ethical signification revealed in the face. However, the Levinasian understanding of the other has been criticized as an abstraction. The paper defends Levinas’s insight by arguing that there is a distinction between the other and the way she manifests herself and that there are different and concrete ways through which Levinas speaks of the other and the self.