Levinas Studies

ISSNs: 1554-7000, 2153-8433

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    Alterity, Asymmetrical Relationships and Allegiance.Cedric Cohen-Skalli - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:75-92.
    The economic shift initiated in the 1980s, the reign of the market and the computer, often resulted in the reappearing of a “feudal legal structure... consisting of networks of allegiance.” This paradox (ultra-modernity and neo-feudalism) is rarely considered a historical tool for studying late twentieth-century philosophy. This article is a first step in that direction, using Supiot’s characterization of the period as a “shift from law to tie” to approach the work of Levinas. In Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than (...)
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    Europe, Peace, and Guilty Conscience.Pascal Delhom - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:47-63.
    In “Peace and Proximity,” like in other texts of the 1980s, Levinas develops the idea of a guilty conscience of the European. This guilty conscience would be due to a contradiction between the old seduction of Europe by a peace resting on truth and, at the same time, a long history of perpetrating a violence inherent to Europe, its achievements, and its position in the World. But Levinas asks also whether this guilty conscience of the European doesn’t have another and (...)
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    Hunger, Action, Activism.Oona Eisenstadt - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:35-46.
    This essay supports Annabel Herzog’s argument that a positive politics can be found in Levinas’s Talmudic readings, often signaled by a discussion of hunger. It also raises doubts about the concreteness of this politics, noting that the moments where Levinas points to a better universal are quite gestural. Finally, it suggests that this strain of political thinking might best be understood as part of Levinas’s account of the nature of Judaism.
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    Maimonides on Almsgiving.Warren Zev Harvey - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:65-73.
    Levinas’s analysis of the relationship between ethics, with its uncompromising responsibility, and politics, with its compromises, is difficult. An examination Maimonides’s chapters on charity may help us understand it. According to Maimonides, one is commanded to give the poor person everything he or she lacks, including clothes, furniture, a spouse, as well as a horse and a herald. One is, moreover, required to give “with a friendly face” and to see the face of the poor person. However, it is impossible (...)
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    The Ambiguity of the Real.Annabel Herzog - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:23-34.
    In his earlier texts Levinas uses justice to describe the ethical meeting between the ego and the other, in which the ego is immediately and absolutely responsible for the other. In later texts, he turns to justice to express the socio-political relationship of the ego with many others, in which responsibility can never be absolute. An examination of the texts in which Levinas specifically focuses on justice, that is, his Talmudic readings, reveals a third understanding, one in which justice is (...)
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    Editors’ Introduction.Annabel Herzog & Pascal Delhom - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:17-22.
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    Thinking Two Days, One Night with Levinas.Michael L. Morgan - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:93-106.
    It is controversial how Levinas understands the interrelation between the ethical and the political. In this article, I propose an interpretation of that relationship and then provide a reading of the film Two Days, One Night, written and directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, in order to enrich that proposal. Bringing into focus how a film expresses developments in philosophical thought is a delicate and subtle matter. I hope to show how a careful reading of the film and in particular (...)
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    Emmanuel Levinas’s “Religion and Idea of the Infinite” (1982).Michael Portal - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:1-15.
    In 1982 Emmanuel Levinas contributed a “lesson” on religion to a series in Le Monde. Intended for a general audience, Levinas’s lesson is a clear and concise introduction to his thought in general—and, in particular, to the curious persistence of the idea of God or the Infinite despite modernity. After the death of God, what remains, invoking Descartes, is the “idea of God” or even the “expectation” of God (and, so, of some greater “meaning [sens] and justification”). Between Pascal and (...)
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    Levinas’s Readings of Husserl’s Lectures on Time Consciousness.Christopher J. King - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:131-148.
    Emmanuel Levinas identifies Husserl’s lectures on the internal consciousness of time as of central phenomenological importance. However, Levinas gives two different readings of these lectures: the first argues that Husserl’s concept of the proto-impression is the receptivity of sensation that provides the basis for intentional constitution. The second reading, by contrast, argues that Husserl’s account is ultimately bound to the category of the Same, as whatever enters consciousness is not put into question. Most commentators either conflate the readings or interpret (...)
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    Levinas and Decolonial Israel.Elad Lapidot - 2023 - Levinas Studies 17:107-129.
    This article reflects on the work of Emmanuel Levinas as a textual site for the critique of the notion of Jewish epistemic difference. The first part discusses critical readings of Levinas, which indicated how his Jewish otherness grounds powerful sameness, of oppressive and imperial nature. The strongest thrust of this critique is characterized as postcolonial. The second part suggests a hermeneutics perspective on Levinas’s work for a reading whereby Levinas himself anticipated contemporary critique and in response to it developed what (...)
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