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Emmanuel Levinas

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Emmanuel Levinas--his story, his thought, and his impact on contemporary continental philosophy--at Mythos & Logos. With links galore!

Emmanuel Levinas Emmanuel Levinas "My effort consists in showing that knowledge is in reality an immanence, and that there is no rupture of the isolation of being in knowledge; and on the other hand, that in communication of knowledge one is found beside the Other, not confronted with him, not in the rectitude of the in-front-of-him. But being in direct relation with the Other is not to thematize the Other and consider him in the same manner as one considers a known object, nor to communicate a knowledge to him. In reality, the fact of being is what is most private; existence is the sole thing

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