Much has changed in the ten years since I argued for Levinasian alternatives to the Law and Economics movements in one of the first articles on Levinas to appear in a U.S. law review. 1 Levinas scholarship has expanded considerably, especially with respect to the practical applications of his purposefully impractical philosophy. Despite his well-known aversion to the subject, Levinas' political...

According to the historical de"nition of philosophy among Western philosophers from Hegel to his anti-historical critics Levinas, Derrida, and Rorty, non-Western peoples have many intellectual practices but in a crucial sense they lack “philosophy.” !is absence meant for Hegel the want of a non-pictorial and abstract, cognitive, conceptual thinking; for later thinkers such as Levinas, Derrida, ...

A recent biographer has described the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as being permeated by one simple but profound theme: western philosophy has at best ignored and at worst suppressed the “Other”. The approach of this study involved a concept-centric examination of innovation terminology assembled from key papers in the area. The analysis presents evidence of the lack of regard in the literatu...

The present-day architecture of the present era represents the emergence of ethical issues arisingfrom the ideas of the " Modern individual-oriented" and "Pos tmodern being oriented", such as the consideration of personal interes ts and the reduction of human relations. Therefore, the exis tence of such shortcomings requires the identification of an architecture that considers the individ...

This paper considers the relevance of the work of Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to geography’s engagements with both mainstream moral philosophy and poststructuralist theory. This relevance lies in the way in which their work unsettles the ascription of normative value to relations of proximity and distance. Distance is usually understood to be a medium of moral harm or indifference. In ...

The present paper examines the Eckhartian motives in Derrida's critique of Levinas' concept of the "Other". The focus is put on the Husserlian concept of alter ego that is at the core of the debate between Levinas and Derrida. Against Levinas, Derrida argues that alter is not an epithet that expresses a mere accidental modification of the ego, but an indicator of radical exteriority. Interestin...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is a global disaster and every country makes efforts to mitigate it. There needs be gradual rise of awareness on the ethics responsibility others in form sense solidarity togetherness. Philosopher Emmanuel Levinas stated that basic facts his philosophy were other people. Therefore, toward others. COVID-19 deserves momentum reflect Levinas’ philosophy,...

This text aims to show how, in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, moment jouissance is constitutive selfhood ego and conditions very possibility a sensitivity other man, so ethical relation itself. These considerations on enjoyment invited us think artistic creation poetry as way respond anesthesia our sensibility through knowledge, which characteristic western thought for Levinas.