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Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (French: Totalité et Infini: essai sur l'extériorité) is a 1961 book about ethics by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. Highly influenced by phenomenology , it is considered one of Levinas's most important works.
Emmanuel Levinas [3] [4] (born Emanuelis Levinas; / ˈ l ɛ v ɪ n æ s /; French: [ɛmanɥɛl levinas]; [5] 12 January 1906 – 25 December 1995) was a French philosopher of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry who is known for his work within Jewish philosophy, existentialism, and phenomenology, focusing on the relationship of ethics to metaphysics and ...
The major difference between Buber's account of the I and Thou relation and the ethics of the face-to-face encounter is the application of Lévinas' asymmetry towards the other. For Buber, ethical relation meant a "symmetrical co-presence," while Lévinas, on the other hand, considers the relation with the other as something inherently ...
Emmanuel Levinas, De l’existence à l’existant (1947). Translated by Lingis as Existence and Existents (2001). Emmanuel Levinas, Totalité et infini: essai sur l’extériorité (1961). Translated by Lingis as Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (1969). Emmanuel Levinas, Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence (1974).
The complication Levinas introduces into his analysis of the face-to-face gives his ethics a further reach toward the kind of universalist ethics of a humanism: One can see an image of destitution and choose a logic in which to ignore it, one can hear the cry, the plea, and be summoned to the logic of another person.
Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence (French: Autrement qu'être ou au-delà de l'essence) is a 1974 work of philosophy by Emmanuel Levinas, the second of his mature works after Totality and Infinity. [1]
The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (January 12, 1906 – December 25, 1995 [22]) uses infinity to designate that which cannot be defined or reduced to knowledge or power. In Levinas' magnum opus Totality and Infinity he says :
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