A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. The way in which the other presents himself, exceeding the idea of the other in me, we here name face. Zlibrary is one of the largest online libraries in the world that contains over 4,960,000 books and 77,100,000 articles. In this paper i present levinas account of excendence in on escape and existence and existents and show its continuity with his subsequent discussions of transcendence in time and the other.
The work of autopositing, of contracting identity, of taking on existing as ones own and thus. An introduction to the philosophy of emmanuel levinas was published, and as its title declared, its purpose was to introduce the reader into the major themes of levinas s work. The levinas reader has both used the best of several extant english language versions of his work, and commissioned translations especially for this volume. Emmanuel levinas of god who comes to mind meridian. Karol wojtyla and emmanuel levinas on the embodied self. Given the very nature of levinas s thought, involving an infinite responsibility for the other and an equally infinite interpretability of. The face of the other at each moment destroys and overflows the plastic image it leaves me, the idea existing to my own measure. Emmanuel levinas, the other as a call for responsibility. Emmanuel levinas 12 january 1906 25 december 1995 was a french philosopher of lithuanian jewish ancestry who is known for his work related to jewish. File history click on a date time to view the file as it appeared at that time. The other individuates me in the responsibility i have for him. Pdf the body and transcendence in emmanuel levinas.
Emmanuel levinas time and the other emmanuel levinas time and the other contains a series of essays presented as lectures in 194647 at the college philosophique in paris, along with additional essays dealing with time, sociality, and ethics. Crossing aesthetics emmanuel levinas the thirteen essays collected in this volume investigate the possibility that the word god can be understood now, at the end of the twentieth century, in a meaningful way. Levinas work contains not only wholly new analyses of the forms of time of the present, the past, the future but also a new conception of the work of time. The articl investigates peculiar vision of the philosopher emmanuel levinas regarding time in its articulation with death and the other s. Totality and infinity 5051 the face is a living presence.
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