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Jan 11, 2018 · Levinas’s work is notoriously challenging. Indeed, even those who are sympathetic to his ideas and accustomed to his style are not always enthused by Levinas’s often startling prose. Drawing on testimonial Holocaust literature, this essay suggests that Levinas is significantly less confounding when read as a “post-Holocaust” thinker ...
Jun 1, 2014 · ABSTRACT: Levinas’s first forays in ethics may be read as extensions of his engagement with Husserlian phenomenology. Levinas rejects Husserl’s construction of alter ego, radicalizing it with his own alterity. Levinas similarly criticizes Martin Buber’s reciprocity as reductive and insists that intersubjectivity is always asymmetrical ...
An intriguing aspect of Levinas’s philosophy is the idea that our very sense of self is established through our relationship with the Other. We often think of our identity as something internal, a product of our thoughts and experiences. However, Levinas suggests that our selfhood is actually shaped in the ethical response to the Other.
Nov 21, 2017 · The task of preserving the idea of good and the ethical obligation of preserving ethicality in a world that has lost its ethics is not the product of higher education or the study of ethics in universities; rather, it stems from a personal readiness to bear this responsibility at a time and a place in which it has no witnesses and enjoys no ...
An extraordinary dialectician, Shushani had been teaching Torah and Talmud since the 1930s in a synagogue in Paris. With him, Talmudic study prolonged humanist and rationalist tendencies already present in Levinas’ approach to Judaism (via Mittnagdism) and to the ethical core of the prophets. This approach, along with the ubiquitous influence ...
Jul 23, 2006 · Michael Morgan has discussed Levinas’ existential basis of ethics in relation to the three ethical schools just indicated (2007). He reminds us that Levinas is working at a pre-theoretical and embodied level that represents the impetus behind ethical systems forged through reflection, tradition, and critique.
Feb 9, 2022 · As Levinas continues, “Teaching is not a species of a genus called domination, a hegemony at work within a totality, but is the presence of infinity breaking the closed circle of totality.” To be fair, what he is talking about here is not the equivalent teaching at a university, and being taught in this sense is not the equivalent of being ...
