الشمولية واللامحدودية

مقدمة

Levinas submitted the book as his main doctoral thesis; it appeared in 1961 in a phenomenological series in The Hague, subtitled “An Essay on Exteriority”. Its four sections move from the relation between the Same and the Other through a phenomenology of enjoyment, dwelling and work to the face, and finally to the erotic relationship and fecundity. Against Heidegger, who places being before ethics, Levinas argues that the ethical relation to the other person comes first and cannot be absorbed into knowledge or comprehension. Derrida’s long essay “Violence and Metaphysics” (1964) questioned whether Levinas could escape the language of the philosophy he criticised; Levinas’ Otherwise than Being (1974) responds in part.

الصلات

يستند إلى

• تأملات في الفلسفة الأولى1641 · رينيه ديكارت

ينتقد

• الوجود والزمان1927 · مارتن هايدغر
• تأملات ديكارتية (Cartesianische Meditationen)1931 · إدموند هوسرل

جرى تناوله في

• فلسفة التحرير (Filosofía de la liberación)1977 · إنريكي دوسل
• الذات عينها كآخر (Soi-même comme un autre)1990 · بول ريكور