Problem of Ethical Metaphysics,” I promise to show how Kierkegaard provides a solution to ethical problems raised by the intersection of Levinas and Kant. This same solution, I hope to argue elsewhere, appears implicitly in the subtext of Plato’s Republic and in a few other key places in the history of Western philosophy. The unfinished paper below is a start in the direction of an answer on be...

ions and Concretions In the history of philosophy, the aim has predominantly been a universal and therefore neutral description of phenomena. The sphere of the erotic, so clearly linked to the sexual and gendered speci@city and singularity of the subject, seems for this reason to be a diLcult subject for philosophers. At what level of abstraction should one approach the erotic phenomenon? Pheno...

On what might a comparative discussion of philosophy of education that takes Europe as one of its terms be based? This paper begins by addressing the complexity that attaches to the name ‘Europe’ in this context in order to lay the way for a more detailed consideration of so-called ‘Continental’ philosophy—specifically of poststructuralism. It makes reference to the ways in which the work of po...

Purpose – This question of community has always been a preoccupation for the human sciences and, indeed, is a practical concern for us everyday humans in our variety ways of being. As such a preoccupation with community traverses vast territories of intellectual discourse in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and so forth. Recent developments in continental philosophy, innovations...

The article investigates the recent turn towards Emmanuel Levinas’ writings in the philosophy of Education. Engaging this turn, the article sets out to develop an ethical, personal and contemplative approach towards understanding and responding to psychosis. By imagining a Levinasian horizon for understanding the experience of psychosis in the Teaching-Learning environment, Levinas’ thought giv...

The concept of "other" is one of the fundamental concepts of philosophy, especially in the twentieth century and in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Levinas, which carriesepistemological and ontological importance. It was also introduced by Mikhail Bakhtin in the field of literature and literary theory. From another perspective, Naser Khosrow developed and introduced such a...

The purpose of my article is to shed light on the relationship proximity and distance that linked two major figures 20th-century French philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas Vladimir Jankélévitch. This presents a comparative study their respective views Metaphysics Ethics. It also deals with contribution reflection fact “Being Jewish”, theme was at center preoccupations these artisans renewal Jewish tho...

This contribution shows how the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas has been confronted autobiographically with National-Socialism (1933-1945) and his personal experience of people under Hitlerism were translated in philosophical understanding ‘being’ as ‘il y a’ (in English: ‘there is’). The Holocaust provides a unique negative point entry to understand Levinas’ ontological category which is s...