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Levinas between Ethics and Politics - For the Beauty that Adorns the Earth (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
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Levinas between Ethics and Politics - For the Beauty that Adorns the Earth (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Series: Phaenomenologica, 152
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The act of thought-thought as an act-would precede the thought
thinking or becoming conscious of an act. The notion of act
involves a violence essentially: the violence of transitivity,
lacking in the transcendence of thought. . . Totality and Infinity
The work of Emmanuel Levinas revolves around two preoccupations.
First, his philosophical project can be described as the
construction of a formal ethics, grounded upon the transcendence of
the other human being and a subject's spontaneous responsibility
toward that other. Second, Levinas has written extensively on, and
as a member of, the cultural and textual life of Judaism. These two
concerns are intertwined. Their relation, however, is one of
considerable complexity. Levinas' philosophical project stems
directly from his situation as a Jewish thinker in the twentieth
century and takes its particular form from his study of the Torah
and the Talmud. It is, indeed, a hermeneutics of biblical
experience. If inspired by Judaism, Levinas' ethics are not eo ipso
confessional. What his ethics takes from Judaism, rather, is a
particular way of conceiving transcendence and the other human
being. It owes to the philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin
Buber a logos of the world and of the holy, which acknowledges
their incom mensurability without positing one as fallen and the
other as supernal."
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