Exploring the relationship between phenomenology and religion in
Levinas’s writings The philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas affirms
both the urgency of peace and the fact that peace is never finally
assured. This tension is a question of responsibility and of the
ethical relation in which that responsibility is grounded. Jeffrey
Bloechl pursues this prophetic dimension of Levinas’s
philosophy—his commitment to phenomenology and to a philosophy of
religion—to make the case for the mutual reinforcement and
intelligibility of these two threads. Levinas on the Primacy of the
Ethical traces the emergence of Levinas’s early thought in
relation to modern political philosophy, his revision of Martin
Heidegger’s existential phenomenology, the consolidation of his
mature position, his important differences with Freudian
psychoanalysis, the turn from metaphysics to language in his later
philosophy, and his complex relationship with Christian theology.
Starting with an exposition of how positive notions of religious
transcendence are already present in some of Levinas’s early
phenomenological texts, Bloechl then stakes the reverse claim: that
Levinas’s conception of God is dependent on his existential
phenomenology. Proceeding chronologically, but with frequent nods
to later developments, this book builds toward the ultimate
assertion that Levinas offers us a phenomenology of event and of
relation without appeal to any foundation, ground, or causal
principle. Only in this way is Levinas able to generate an
argument—and not merely an exhortation—for the primacy of the
ethical as he conceives it.
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