Abstract

It was the main problem of German Idealism, and especially of Hegel, to overcome the strict opposition between human being as an epistemological subject and the universe that can be traced back to Descartes, who started with the I as an unquestionable source of reality, and to Kant, who reinforced this attitude by rendering the I think as an essential form of all experience. After Nietzsche and Heidegger, Cogito’s subject should lost its Archimedean position to a very large extent. Levinas’ there is should be understood against this background, primarily with Heidegger’s idea of Being . There is, which designates an existence without existent, a mood without a subject cannot be an ordinary experience. This action without an actor, which looks like the unconscious could be grasped in states such as insomnia, fatigue, weariness in which there is a withdrawal from being. The subject becomes a subject by becoming responsible for the Other, being for the Other while suspending the there is