Emmanuel Levinas

The, um, uh ...

This is a criticism that, um, even in French continental philosophy some critics made of, uh, writers like Emmanuel Levinas.

Mm.

Um, and you could make the same ...

The second point I would emphasize with respect to this early reading of Heidegger is that it made me quite sensitive to the topic of the finitude of the human Dasein.

This preoccupation emerges strongly in my other writing on Heidegger, but also in my work on Levinas and Blanchot, and even in my work on infancy.

I followed my first book on Heidegger then with a second that addressed his later thought on language, language and relation, that there is language.

This volume also touched on the topic of language in readings of Luce Irigaray, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, and Walter Benjamin, but its long first section with three essays were devoted principally to Heidegger's On the Way to Language.

So, uh,

And here, Immanuel Kant, the philosopher, and on the first one, Immanuel Levinas, another philosopher, wrote pages that when you see the fragility, it triggers

I gotta factor that in.

Um, I was gonna go into this back and forth a little bit

In Camus, the plague also says something along the lines of saying, well, I simply refuse to worship a God who allows the suffering of children.

And of course, this takes a phenomenological turn in Levinas, who develops on Dostoevsky.

He's very influenced by Dostoevsky, but then takes it further by saying suffering is passive and prior to receptivity, there's this ultimate passiveness of suffering.

of suffering.

And so do we say, "Oh, you were never a worker in a textile factory, so you have no right to speak of it"? I think that that is the deepest kinds of anti-intellectualism, um, possible, so that this sort of lived experience authentification is part and parcel of an anti-materialism that's part of liberal centrist politics in the Anglo-American world that we export to the rest of the world as some kind of moral good.

That focus on lived experience, does that come from philosophers such as Levinas, who say that the other is unknowable, that we, the other is eternal?

Um, Levinas is a kind of metaphysician of intersubjectivity.

I do think the other is unknowable.

I don't know if he...

You instrumentalize their suffering, and you make yourself the agent of cure, recovery, witness, et cetera.

So in trauma studies, for instance, that came out of, um, Yale University literature department, the highest order of, um, ethical moral activity was actually witnessing, witnessing the other.

And they were very, they owed a lot to, um, Levinas.

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Mr. Levinas, 90 years old on the 1st of June.

And he and Mrs. Levinas are celebrating their 50th anniversary on this date, and they have been loyal Tiger fans for many years.

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