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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Levinas"”.
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Levinas : subjectivity, affectivity and desire
The thesis argues that Emmanuel Levinas’s later concept of ethical subjectivity, explicated in his late work Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence, can really only be understood by taking into account the very early work On Escape. The thesis argues that the concept of ethical subjectivity emerges …
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The Martyr’s Desire: Levinas, Girard, and Infinite Responsibility
… these problematic vestiges through Emmanuel Levinas’s reconfiguration of subjectivity. To address these bio-historical realities, my work highlights the role of the martyr in Levinas’s philosophy. As with other philosophical and religious concepts, I argue that Levinas inverts the dynamic of …
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Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the politics of dwelling
… homecoming from the perspective of Emmanuel Levinas’s pointed critique of Heidegger’s place-bound view of human existence. Taking aim at the ontological, anti-humanistic, and pagan elements of Heidegger’s thought, Levinas posits an alternative that is ethical in emphasis, humanistic in …
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Communication and Response-ability: Levinas and Kierkegaard in Conversation
… Lithuanian-born French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. I maintain that Levinas's disruption of the philosophical tradition informs a communication ethic comprised of dialectical, dialogical, and rhetorical modes of interpersonal interaction that are fundamentally rooted in an existential …
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Sensation Rebuilt: Carnal Ontology in Levinas and Merleau-Ponty
… approaches to embodiment presented by Levinas and Merleau-Ponty cannot provide an adequate account of bodily identity because their methodological commitments forbid them from admitting the central role that sensation plays in the constitution of experience. This neglect is symptomatic …
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Hinn hins. Um draugagang sjálfsverumótunar hjá Levinas, Derrida og Butler
… kenningum franska heimspekingsins Emmanuels Levinas (1906-1995) á sviði fyrirbærafræði um mannleg samskipti einstaklinga, með sérstakri áherslu á Hinn, sem Levinas setti fram í bók sinni Heild og óendanleiki frá árinu 1961. Fyrirbærafræði Levinas leitast við að lýsa uppruna sjálfsverunnar. Í …
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The Language of Ethical Encounter: Levinas, Otherness, and Contemporary Poetry
According to philosopher, Emmanuel Levinas, alterity can exist only in its infinite and fluid nature in which the aspects of it that exceed the human ability to fully understand it remain unthematized in language. Levinas sees the encounter between self and other as the moment that instigates …
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Intersubjectiviteit. Wederzijdse begrenzing van de psychoanalyse en de phenomenologie van Levinas
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The Question of Freedom in the Early Writings of Emmanuel Levinas
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Phenomenology and Blindness: Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and an Alternative Metaphysical Vision
… the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Levinas to determine if it is possible to philosophize from a non-ocularcentric perspective. As part of my project, I examine a trend in continental thought towards what Martin Jay calls "anti-ocularcentrism"; while I find many of his insights quite …
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Hope as a Strategy: Messianism in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
… often expressed as hope, in the work of Emmanuel Levinas. Levinas's single philosophical project from 1933 until his passing in 1996 was to establish ethics as first philosophy. This effort was in opposition to the primacy of ontology in the work of Martin Heidegger. Levinas uses a …
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Camera Mortis: Ethics and Aesthetics in Emmanuel Levinas and Richard Mosse
… in time and space. The thesis takes Emmanuel Levinas’s articulation of ethics and aesthetics to propose a theory of a camera mortis that reflects the proximity of life and death as a defining condition of the twenty-first century and art. To develop this approach to art, the thesis primarily …
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Ethics and The Other: An Interpretation of The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
This thesis aims to present a reading of Levinas that defends his philosophy against criticisms that it is ultimately idealistic or quietist, made by thinkers like Gillian Rose and Alain Badiou. This understanding of Levinas is founded on a misreading of his texts, and as such I present a new …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
… the one hand, and the deconstructive projects of Levinas and Derrida on the other. First, I identify the central difference between the two projects, reconstructing each account of justice as it develops in relation to Kant s practical philosophy. I then argue that the two projects are …
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The Ethics of Reading: Levinas and Gadamer on encountering the other in literature
… and particularly in the application of Emmanuel Levinas’s work to the field of literary studies. I identify a major concern with this trend that has been largely overlooked: Levinas states that the Other cannot be encountered through the mediation of literature. With questions of justice towards …
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Encounter-Oriented Subjectivity in Levinas and Barth: Conditioned Freedom in Resistance to Ethnonationalism
… analysis of the phenomenologist Emmanuel Levinas and the Christian theologian Karl Barth. Levinas and Barth share a deep structure of “encounter-oriented subjectivity,” meaning subjectivity oriented by encounter with the Other that calls into question the subject’s freedom and, in this …
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Phenomenology of Death: The Religious Dimension in the Ethical Thought of Emmanuel Levinas
<p>This dissertation explores Levinas’s phenomenology of death in order to unveil the religious dimension in his ethical thought through examining the political moment of the third party. I argue that death is neither a pure phenomenon transparently intelligible in the noema-noesis structure of …
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