OBJECTIVE In this article, the author uses the leitmotifs inherent in a critically acclaimed film and in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas as a backdrop for discussion around how we encounter the humanity in the Other and its particular relevance for psychiatry. She proceeds to describe the existential underpinnings of psychodrama and demonstrates how she has been directing a psychodrama group...

This article introduces a new pragmatist-inspired perspective on the social sciences. It explores the relevance of neo-pragmatism for the philosophy of the social sciences, showing how it can lead to innovative and groundbreaking social research. The paper attempts to drive home these insights by elaborating on the affinities of neopragmatism with some Continental philosophers who have engaged ...

Background: Modern subject-based philosophy, in which everything reduces to the whole, reduces to the Other to I, or emanates it from the realm of knowledge, ignores the differences, currently cannot answer to ethics. Levinas, as a philosopher who has a concern about the “Other", believes that there is no subject that needs to be known, and the other is "Self" in advance and is touched rather t...

Growing interest in qualitative research methods and methodological pluralism in psychology since the 1990s is placed in the historical contexts of long-standing philosophical and scientific rationales and the more recent ‘‘qualitative revolution’’ in other social sciences that began in the 1970s. An examination of areas in which qualitative methods have become most strongly established—applied...

"Home" is well known from everyday experience, plays a crucial role in all kinds of narratives about human life, but is hardly ever systematically dealt with in the philosophy of medicine and health care. The notion of home is ambiguous, is often used in a metaphorical way, and is closely related to concepts such as house and dwelling. In this paper the phenomenon of home is explored by means o...

Drawing inspiration from diverse Indigenous scholars and mentors, as well Levinas’ advocacy of ‘ethics first philosophy’, this article advocates a radical contextualist reframing geographical research needing to address the challenges targeted by new peer review journal. Reframing our disciplinary in way might acknowledge need cast off discipline’s Eurocentric (or more particularly, its Anglo-A...

If we categorize religions according to whether they give greater prominence to time or to space, the role of “promise” marks a religion of covenant as clearly a religion of time. Yet the future is unknowable and can only be present to us as a field of possibilities. How far do these possibilities extend? The question directs us back to the nature of time, a question that became concealed in th...

Levinasian philosophy is characterized as a of ethical subjectivity and asymmetrical responsibility. Ethics understood the subject that gives itself entirely to Other. However, Other never alone. His face attests presence third party who, looking at me in his eyes, cries for justice. There no longer any question devote himself (ethical justice), give everything him risk appearing empty-handed b...