总体与无限

简介

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.

联系

承接了

• 第一哲学沉思集1641 · 勒内·笛卡尔

批评了

• 存在与时间1927 · 马丁·海德格尔
• 笛卡尔式的沉思1931 · 埃德蒙德·胡塞尔

被承接于

• 解放哲学1977 · 恩里克·杜塞尔
• 作为他者的自身1990 · 保罗·利科