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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.
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 ...
Levinas's thesis "ethics as first philosophy", then, means that the traditional philosophical pursuit of knowledge is secondary to a basic ethical duty to the other. To meet the Other is to have the idea of Infinity. [25] The elderly Levinas was a distinguished French public intellectual, whose books reportedly sold well.
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).
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]
A California man died and a Good Samaritan is facing serious injuries after being attacked by dogs last week. According to a statement from the San Diego Humane Society obtained by USA TODAY, the ...
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Dick Van Dyke still makes time for leg day. The actor celebrated his 99th birthday on Dec. 13, then appears to have hit the gym a few days later, according to a video shared on his Instagram page ...