scholarly journals VIOLÊNCIA, FILOSOFIA E CINEMA

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wagner Alves Reis
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Basic Concepts

Violence from the perspective of Emmanuel Lévinas' philosophical thinking and Ingmar Bergman's film perspective. Analyze violence through the dialogue between philosophical and cinematographic perspectives. Bibliographic research of some works by Lévinas and other commentators in order to summarize basic concepts of this philosopher and documentary research of three films by Bergman, identifying common elements among the productions of the famous 20th century interpreters. Violence as a reflection of the absence of Alterity and of a face-to-face encounter with the Other. Cinema and philosophy helping each other to understand and infer about the human phenomenon.

Levinas in therapy

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-297
Author(s):  
Bob Plant
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Potential Significance ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
The Face ◽  
Short Explanation ◽  
The Way

Emmanuel Levinas’ semi-phenomenological analyses of the “face-to-face” encounter with “the other” are frequently alluded to in the therapeutic literature. Indeed, for some therapists, Levinas provides the conceptual apparatus to reconfigure traditional therapeutic practice. While acknowledging the importance of his work, in this article I raise critical questions about the way Levinas’ ideas are often used by psychotherapists. The discussion is divided into five sections: First, I provide a short explanation of the motivations for writing this paper. Second, I offer an overview of some prominent themes therapists typically draw from Levinas’ writings. Next, I present my own reconstruction of the face-to-face encounter. Then, drawing on the previous reconstruction, I outline the main questions Levinas-inspired therapists need to address. Finally, I reconsider the potential significance of Levinas’ work for therapists.

scholarly journals The Other, Shame, and Politics: Levinas, Justice, and Feeling Responsible

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Steve Larocco
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Political Realm

Adi Ophir has suggested that the political realm is an order of evils, producing and managing regular forms of suffering and violence rather than eliminating them. Thus, the political is always to some extent a corrupted order of justice. Emmanuel Levinas’ work presents in its focus on the face-to-face relationship a means of rethinking how to make the political more open to compassionate justice. Though Levinas himself doesn’t sufficiently take on this question, I argue that his work facilitates a way of thinking about commiserative shame that provides a means to connect the face-to-face to its potential effects in the political sphere. If such shame isn’t ignored or bypassed, it produces an unsettling relation to the other that in its adversity motivates a kind of responsibility and care for the other that can alter the public sphere.

scholarly journals Zwierzęta mają twarz, a zabawa w zabijanie jest niemoralna. Dwa przykłady współczesnej refl eksji etycznej

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Barbara Niedźwiedzka
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Ethical Status ◽  
Interesting Contribution ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Animal Question

The article discusses two books that make an interesting contribution to the development of ethical refl ection on the relationship between humans and an-imals. These are: Face to face with animals. Levinas and Animal question edited by Peter Atterton and Tamara Wright, whose authors, followers of the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, address the ethical status of animals in the 168BŤŵťŤŵŤ NŬŨŧȌźŬŨŧŽŮŤlight of the “Other” and “Face” concepts, and the book: Ethical Condemnation of Hunting edited by Dorota Probucka – a collection of essays exposing myths, lies and pathologies accompanying the killing of animals for sport or entertain-ment. The authors of both collections of essays draw attention to the reasons and mechanisms for excluding animals from the sphere of philosophical refl ec-tion and human morality and give strong arguments for restoring their proper ethical status.

Encountering the Face of the Other: The Implications of the Work of Emmanuel Levinas for Research in Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cass Dykeman
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
The Face ◽  
Research In Education

This article presents one of the most influential continental philosophers of the 20th century to an American audience of counselor and teacher educators. I discuss the implications of Levinas’ thought for research and practice in these fields.

Gratitude as a Performative

2021 ◽  
pp. 000332862110238
Author(s):  
Armand E Larive
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Other ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time

Rather than a general theory of gratitude, the paper focuses on gratitude as a human dynamic in appreciative recognition of others. The phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas’ face-to-face ethics is discussed as the subject’s call to responsibility for an Other. Following Jacques Derrida’s criticism of how this responsibility binds the subject into a hostage position regarding the Other, Paul Ricoeur repairs the working value of Levinas’ ethics by loosening the face-to-face obligation of the Other into one of reconnaissance, or thankful recognition. Without losing the face-to-face dynamic, the expression of reconnaissance is then investigated through J. L. Austin’s theory of performatives where gratitude is expressed as a speech act, or with the help of Judith Butler, where performativity is an activity expressing a reconnaissance between people over time. Three examples are given at the end.

scholarly journals The Possibility/Impossibility of Ethical Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Philosophical Reflection

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-243
Author(s):  
Shining Star Lyngdoh
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
The Face ◽  
Meaningful Engagement ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Ethical Demand

AbstractThe outbreak of COVID-19 has raised a global concern and calls for an urgent response. During this perpetual time of epidemic crisis, philosophy has to stand on trial and provide a responsible justification for how it is still relevant and can be of used during this global crisis. In such a time of crisis like that of COVID-19, this paper offers a philosophical reflection from within the possibility/impossibility of community thinking in India, and the demand for an ethical responsivity and response-ability to act ethically towards the Other (autrui) to show that philosophy always already emerges from within the context of crisis. As an alternative outlook to the thinking of totalitarian singularity and individualism, community—in its possible and impossible making—can offer more meaningful engagement with the other human being by being responsible and extending care towards the Other. The thinking of a shared community life is the facticity of one’s own being-together-in-common without the dismissal of individual differences as can be seen in the works of Jean-Luc Nancy, and there is an ethical demand that comes from the face-to-face ethical relationship with the Other as argued by Emmanuel Levinas.

scholarly journals PHENOMENOLOGY OF HAPPINESS AND ETHICS: FROM ARISTOTLE TO DUNS SCOTUS AND E. LÉVINAS / LAIMĖS IR ETIKOS FENOMENOLOGIJA: NUO ARISTOTELIO IKI DUNSO ŠKOTO IR E. LÉVINO

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-92
Author(s):  
Nerijus Čepulis
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
Aristotelian Ethics ◽  
Western View

In this paper I focus on the most problematic aspects of Aristotelian notion of happiness and ethics. Aristotelian ethics and the Greek wisdom on the whole strove for being, completeness and totality. Such thinking and its total attempt to achieve being, especialy rational being, that often became ideological violence, nowadays is receiving more and more incredulity and criticism. The schoolman of the 13th century Duns Scotus already stated such notions of happiness and ethics that required otherness with its radical transcendence. Also the phenomenologist of the 20th century Emmanuel Lévinas criticizes the Western view of humanity. The total(itarian) consciousness and any systematization in Lévinas’ alternative thinking are ruptured by the ideas of infinity and the other that enable to think otherwise, and outside of being. Santrauka Šiame straipsnyje, atsispiriant nuo Aristotelio laimės sąvokos, siekiama kritiškai apmąstyti klasikinę graikiškąją etikos sampratą. Aristotelio etika, o ir graikiškojoje ontologijoje įsišaknijusi (iš)mintis visada siekė apimti, išbaigti ir imanentiškai suvokti būties visumą. Toks vyraujančia tradicija tapęs mąstymas, pagrįstas conatus essendi ir dažnai neišvengiantis tapti ideologine prievarta, šiandien sulaukia vis daugiau nepasitikėjimo ir kritikos. Ir ne tik šiandien. Jau XIII a. scholastas Dunsas Škotas mąstė apie minėtos laimės ir etikos sampratos alternatyvą, kuri reikalauja kitybės idėjos, nurodančios į tai, kas absoliučiai transcenduoja mąstantįjį subjektą. Taip pat ir XX a. fenomenologas Emmanuelis Lévinas savo kritiką nukreipia į vakarietiškąją ontocentrinę pasaulėvoką ir iš jos išplaukiančią žmogiškumo sampratą. Totalią, sisteminančią ir neišvengiamai totalitarinę sąmonę Lévino alternatyviojoje fenomenologijoje „praplėšia“ begalybės ir kitybės idėjos, padedančios mąstyti kitaip ir anapus buvimo.

scholarly journals UNFOLDING FLESH TOWARDS THE OTHER: LEVINAS’ PERSPECTIVE OF MATERNITY AND THE FEMININE

Problemos ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 138-152
Author(s):  
Irina Poleshchuk
Keyword(s):  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
Conceptual Work

The paper discusses a formation of the ethical body in Levinas’ philosophy. The central question is how different modalities of subjectivity, brought into light in face-to-face relation with the other, constitute a particular ethical and sensible embodiment. The main topics of the paper are caress, touch, and pain, and their role in constructing ethical embodiment. The focus is given to such existential modalities as being-in-one’s-own-skin, the-one-for-the-other and having-the-other-under-one’s-own-skin. The conceptual work of maternity and the feminine in the face-to-face situation accentuate a meaning of responsive and responsible sensibility which Levinas reveals in his major works Otherwise than Being or Beyond the Essence and Totality and Infinity. Keywords: Emmanuel Levinas, sensibility, embodiment, flesh, face, the other, skin, caress, touch, pain, maternity, feminineAtveriant kūną kitam: leviniškoji motinystės ir moteriškumo interpretacijaIrina Poleshchuk SantraukaStraipsnyje analizuojamas etinis kūnas Levino filosofijoje. Pagrindinis klausimas – kaip skirtingi subjektyvybės modalumai, išnirę į šviesą betarpiškoje akistatoje su Kitu, įsteigia konkretų etinį ir juslinį įkūnytumą. Pagrindinės straipsnio temos yra glamonė, lietimas ir skausmas bei jų vaidmuo kuriant etinį įsikūnijimą. Dėmesys skiriamas tokiems egzistenciniams modalumams kaip „buvimas savo paties odoje“, „vienas kitam“, „kito buvimas po mano oda“. Motinystės ir moteriškumo konceptualinis veikimas akistatos situacijoje išryškina reikšmę atsakančio ir atsakingo juslumo, kurį Levinas atskleidžia savo pagrindiniuose darbuose „Kitaip negu būtis, arba anapus esmės“ ir „Totalybė ir begalybė“.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: Emmanuel Levinas, juslumas, įkūnytumas, kūnas, veidas, kitas, oda, glamonė, lietimas, skausmas, motinystė, moteriškumas.

scholarly journals Further Questions: A Way Out of the Present Philosophical Situation (via Foucault)

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-105
Author(s):  
Leonard Lawlor
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
The One

Let us begin by assembling some signs of the present philosophical situation. On the one hand, the most important living French philosopher, Alain Badiou, calls for a “return to Plato,” despite the movement of anti-Platonism that dominated French and German thought in the 20th century. On the other hand, the present moment sees a resurgence of naturalism in philosophy in general (including and especially Anglophone analytic philosophy), despite the criticisms of naturalism that have appeared throughout the 20th century. Phenomenology seems to be at the center of both of these movements. On the one hand, it is the idea of a mathematized ontology that requires the return to Plato, a mathematized ontology constructed without a reflection on its transcendental grounds. On the other, the resurgence of naturalism is so strong that a book could be imagined and published with the bastard name of Naturalizing Phenomenology, as if the transcendental moment of phenomenology did not transform the very meaning of nature. These signs seem to indicate that we have entered into a phase of regression or even decline in philosophical thinking. If this interpretation of the signs is correct, if we have indeed entered into a phase of regression -- a twofold regression toward Platonism and toward naturalism -- we must ask the following question: is it possible for us to define something like a project or even a research agenda that would allow us to define a way of thinking that might lead us out of the present situation, a situation, it must be said, that seems dire for philosophy in general? If we can determine such a research agenda, perhaps we can also begin to understand what the tradition of “continental philosophy” has stood for.

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