What does it mean to listen what cannot be heard? In this article, the “unheard-of” is explored along two different tracks: (a) as something God-given or divinely revealed (in context of theology and philosophy religion) (b) egregious criminal ethics trauma studies). Theological epistemology here developed with a special focus on limits cognition knowledge God in Christianity (Anselm Canterbury...

This article describes the history of modern metaphysics as immanentization transcendence. We show this from concept “idea god”, which is phenomenon that violently separates subjectivity transcendence and opens up a tear in it we call “psycho-theological”: divine leaves trace us by its very distance. describe means study four archives: Descartes’ third Metaphysical Meditations (1641), refutatio...

E): French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's thinking on art goes to the very heart of the debate concerning the possibility of "thinking (or expressing/expressive) pictures". Knowing whether or not art can give things a face would enable us to ascertain whether images are capable of exceeding themselves of "articulating" a text, "uttering" a speech, or even "thinking" a thought. In this essay, I ...

In cognitive psychology, studies concerning the face tend to focus on questions about face recognition, theory of mind (ToM) and empathy. Questions about the face, however, also fit into a very different set of issues that are central to ethics. Based especially on the work of Levinas, philosophers have come to see that reference to the face of another person can anchor conceptions of moral res...

According to the French-Jewish thinker Levinas (1905–1995), ethics begins with the appearing of the other person, or, as he calls it in his first major work, Totality and Infinity (1961), with his or her “face.” Let us follow Levinas in his attempt to describe this central ethical phenomenon. In this way, we will be led to pay special attention to the problem of violence, hate, and murder, sinc...

Abstract Alterity is a concept with an extensive yet elusive history. Popularly conceived of as radical difference and Otherness, I identify alterity the source much virulent forms racism, sexism, islamophobia, other dichotomies in society that pit one group against another. Coming out tradition critical qualitative inquiry, offer genealogy through various contexts disciplines focus on its use ...

This paper extends Emmanuel Levinas’ articulation of “the face to face” encounter (1969, p. 79-81) to suggest that students and teachers can be brought into an ethical proximity created by the media they share and discuss online in Facebook. In Levinas’ terms, a ‘face’ is not simply a physical face. Instead, the Levinasian face encapsulates all the ways that one person is able to reveal aspects...

Abstract This work starts by unfolding Levinas’ legacy from Bergson to phenomenology. Particularly, the article explores how Levinas deeply understood meaning of Husserl’s transcendental idealism Ideas I. He adheres re(con)duction transcendental, as sense existence overlooked naturalist ontology. Finally, it develops Levinasian continuation genetic phenomenology and its conclusion, that is, irr...