Hermeneutics before Ontology: How Later Levinas Better Understands Heidegger

Lapidot, Elad

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1163/1477285x-12341357

Title :

Hermeneutics before Ontology: How Later Levinas Better Understands Heidegger

Author(s) :

Lapidot, Elad [Auteur]

Centre d'Études en Civilisations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères - ULR 4074 [CECILLE]

Journal title :

Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

Pages :

133-155

Publisher :

Brill Academic Publishers

Publication date :

2024-04-03

ISSN :

1053-699X

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Philosophie

English abstract : [en]

Abstract This paper examines Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical development from Totality and Infinity to Otherwise than Being as a self-critique and revised understanding of Martin Heidegger. It focuses on later Levinas’s ...
Show more >Abstract This paper examines Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical development from Totality and Infinity to Otherwise than Being as a self-critique and revised understanding of Martin Heidegger. It focuses on later Levinas’s analysis of language in terms of the difference between Saying and Said. For Levinas, the Said represents the betrayal of ethical Saying into ontological essence. This echoes Heidegger’s notion of the forgetfulness of Being in beings. However, Levinas critiques Heidegger’s own philosophy as remaining within the Said. The paper explores three strategies of “unsaying” that Levinas discerns in Western philosophy to disrupt ontological Said: ontology itself, skepticism, and philosophical conversation. It argues that Levinas ultimately seeks an alternative “prophetic” mode of language beyond philosophy that enacts difference, which the paper relates to Talmud. The paper claims that the later Levinas no longer simply opposes Greek to Jewish thought, but rather seeks to deploy a specifically Jewish form of language to interrupt Western metaphysics from within.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

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