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The Intrigue of Ethics - A Reading of the Idea of Discourse in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (Hardcover)
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The Intrigue of Ethics - A Reading of the Idea of Discourse in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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This work explains how human beings can live more peacefully with
one another by understanding the conditions of possibility for
dialogue. Philosophically, this challenge is articulated as the
problem of: how dialogue as dia-logos is possible when the shared
logos is precisely that which is in question. Emmanuel Levinas, in
demonstrating that the shared logos is a function of interhuman
relationship, helps us to make some progress in understanding the
possibilities for dialogue in this situation. If the terms of the
argument to this point are taken largely from Levinas's 1961
Totality and Infinity, Dudiak further proposes that Levinas's 1974
Otherwise than Being can be read as a deepening of these earlier
analyses, delineating, both the conditions of possibility and
impossibility for discourse itself. Throughout these analyses
Dudiak discovers that in Levinas's view dialogue is ultimately
possible, only for a gracious subjectivity already graced by God by
way of the other, but where the word God is inseparable from my
subjectivity as graciousness to the other. Finally, for Levinas,
the facilitation of dialogue, the facilitation of peace, comes down
to the subject's capacity and willingness to be who he or she is,
to take the beautiful risk of a peaceful gesture offered to the
other, and that peace, in this gesture itself. As Levinas himself
puts it: "Peace then is under my responsibility. I am a hostage,
for I am alone to wage it, running a fine risk, dangerously."
Levinas's philosophical discourse is precisely itself to be read as
such a gesture.
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