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Time and the Other

Emmanuel Levinas

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Time and the Other contains a series of essays presented as a series of lectures in 1946—47 at the College Philosophique in Paris, along with additional essays dealing with the themes of time, sociality and ethics. This work represents, along with Existence and Existents , the first formulation of Emmanuel Levinas's own philosophy, later more fully developed in Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence .

Beginning with an analysis of existence without existents, Time and the Other then describes the origination of the subject, and moves through its encounter with another person. It is in this encounter rather than in the world that Levinas discovers time in its full sense. The progression of Levinas's phenomenology moves towards alterity, not toward totality. Levinas connects the alterity of the Other with temporality; the Other who is encountered is not contemporary, not met "at the same time." The time of the Other disrupts or interrupts the self's own temporality.

This is essential reading for all those interested in Levinas, and an excellent starting point for understanding the nature of Levinas's philosophical project and thought.

Language: English

Pages: 150

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duquesne University Press

Release: December 01, 1987

ISBN: 0820702331

ISBN 13: 9780820702339

Time and the Other

Emmanuel Levinas

4/5 ( ratings)

Time and the Other contains a series of essays presented as a series of lectures in 1946—47 at the College Philosophique in Paris, along with additional essays dealing with the themes of time, sociality and ethics. This work represents, along with Existence and Existents , the first formulation of Emmanuel Levinas's own philosophy, later more fully developed in Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence .

Beginning with an analysis of existence without existents, Time and the Other then describes the origination of the subject, and moves through its encounter with another person. It is in this encounter rather than in the world that Levinas discovers time in its full sense. The progression of Levinas's phenomenology moves towards alterity, not toward totality. Levinas connects the alterity of the Other with temporality; the Other who is encountered is not contemporary, not met "at the same time." The time of the Other disrupts or interrupts the self's own temporality.

This is essential reading for all those interested in Levinas, and an excellent starting point for understanding the nature of Levinas's philosophical project and thought.

Language: English

Pages: 150

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duquesne University Press

Release: December 01, 1987

ISBN: 0820702331

ISBN 13: 9780820702339

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