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in spite of Levinas's explicit resistance to psychoanalysis, his phenomeno-logical project betrays a rhetoric of an ethical unconscious. His project of creating a phenomenological subject leads him to a radical singularity that ultimately gives way to Levinas's concept of "substitution." She argues
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- Emmanuel Levinas: The Rhetoric of Ethics
Jul 31, 2022 · This contribution seeks to meet this challenge by drawing on the ethical resources of the work of Emmanuel Levinas. In Levinas’ view, ethical responsibility is the response to the injunction, the interpellation, of the other’s face, and humaneness is conceived entangled in the other’s face.
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The ethics of responsibility: the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas First submission: August 2006 Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics is based on the Other/other. He argues that we are in an asymmetrical relationship with our neighbour that pre-destines us to ethical responsibility even before consciousness or choice. In the face-to-face encounter an
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- The Signification of The Face
- The Face as Discourse and Discourse as An Attitude
- Sensibility as Proximity to The Other
Levinas writes that the face expresses itself as the alterity of the Other—the “face is signification, and signification without context”; that is, without categories and representative themes such as race or gender (1985, 86). Levinas argues that when you regard the face of the Other as the composite of nose, eyes, forehead and chin you objectify ...
The ‘exteriority of discourse’ means that the face signifies in language, not through means of language. Levinas writes that “the face speaks. The manifestation of the face is already discourse. […] To present oneself by signifying is to speak […] Discourse is not simply a modification of intuition (or of thought), but an original relation with ext...
To return to Levinas’s understanding of sensibility introduced above: the sensibility of the face is irreducible to consciousness (or perception) of the face. However, because “not everything that is in consciousness would be posited in consciousness” (1989, 91)—because the face is exteriority—“consciousness is affected, then, before forming an ima...
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Dec 1, 2021 · The primary target of the ethics of resistance in this sense is the concept of the absolute that is present in the face-to-face relation to the Other in Levinas’ Totality and Infinity. The notion of the absolute that is in question is the absolute Other that, according to Dalton, demands the obedience of another person; this absolute Other is ...
Levinas’s ethical variation on the Heideggerian theme of the primacy of affective intentionality over cognitive intentionality leads us to confirm the role of affect as protoethics both from neuroscience
Nov 11, 2021 · In this section, we will expose why the enactivists have shown resistance to embracing the philosophy of Levinas regarding the question of otherness and ethics. To do so, we will give a quick review of how enactivists approach sociality, namely as an intersubjectivity.
