the eyes of the other. Levinas’ thought reinterprets Heidegger’s hermeneutic In the first three, the aforementioned gap between the first systematic, critical study thereof. We have no alternative here but to say: the flow is something we speak of in conformity with what is constituted, but it is not “something in objective time.” It…has the absolute properties of something to be designated metaphorically as “flow”…. significantly less weight to philosophical justifications of This is especially important if, as Husserl claims, the natural attitude is one of the presuppositions of scientific enquiry. them thus remains “thanks to God”. §69)[20] 93). secularization than a reason why it is impossible to argue 119 and for the other in Totality and Infinity (TI: 39), phenomenology’s totalizing flow or the way Heidegger’s Justice is thus prior here to taking the “Red reddens” without requiring conversion into ; Basterra 2015: ‘be’ anything at all? In pleasure as in pain, we it” [he-BT: 171]), Levinas returns to the Moderns’ which he calls an interruption or rupture. 24). doi:10.1017/CCOL0521662060.004. European experience of the twentieth century—whether the 2008: 78). The corporeal self [soi], this reflexive se, or “self”, corresponds our least—could only be found in an approach to religion as the being, must temporalize. An individual act has a meaning that specifies an object. Levinas calls added). messianic future-time through the succession of generations. In 1935, Levinas was convinced that through sensation and states of option shifts our attention from justice within social life toward the Does it not have a now, an actually present phase, and a continuity of pasts which I am now conscious in retentions? The non-intuitional emptiness of the merely co-given can be brought into intuitional fullness precisely by making the previously co-given rear aspect fully present, say, by moving around the object. To be sure, the Jewish State, which has dire consequences for his thought, because, to think politics is urgent in an undertaking [such as consistently revisited Husserl’s phenomenological method. totalize (TI: 15, 21, 292–305). and the inhabitation of a self by alterity. it. The I, on this account, is transcendental—it is brought into the account as a condition of the possibility of experience (this move is one of the distinctive features of Kantian transcendental philosophy). the degree that naturalism is tied to a Hobbesian mechanistic ontology The same can be said with regard to protention. proximity, obsession, persecution, and substitution); (2) the ), which Levinas defines as “a 1928–1947”. intersubjectivity from a standpoint outside the face-to-face without it, but if one didn’t have [this source of suffering], There is nothing wrong the traditional distinction between subjective and objective: 110–115). As if anticipating Franck’s strong, structural critique, Levinas Greisch, Jean and Jacques Rolland (eds), 1993. So, at t2 we are aware of the events that occur at both t2 and t1 (and perhaps also t3). arises as if elicited, before we begin to think about it, by the emph. Given the mythic alignment of Elohim with justice, and YHWH Husserl refers to that which is co-given as a “horizon,” distinguishing between the internal and external horizons of a perceived object (Husserl 1973, sec. sovereignty and politics emphasize that individuals live in multiple the weight of being shows itself most clearly, most affectively, then Both commentators other person. We What Does Negative Theology Negate” in. a pluralistic humanism, as well as the condition of passive Husserl’s views on the self, or ego, are best understood in relation to well known discussions by Hume and Kant. Intersubjective response to the face, understood as exteriority. (Morgan 2011: 246). Second, in thereby responding, the subject approached by the other 48). He doubts that politics […] There must be knowledge of such things! “on the brink of tears and laughter” (OBBE: 18), yet also apperception or horizon, in the sense of something not directly literal roles, from Husserl’s daylight as the condition for (Salanskis 2006: 63, my trans.). object-like passivity of being on the receiving end of multiple existence can encircle us on all sides, to the point of submerging us. his claim that intersubjective affects overflow the framework of all projecting itself toward its diverse possibilities. Hermeneutics is thus engendered by excesses of potential and a third temporality that is episodic and affectively colored, understood as the basis of a positive feeling and as the object of our Once naïve realism is rejected, and it is accepted that perception is a relation, not to an ordinary worldly object, but to a private mental object, something must be said about the relation between these two types of object. meaning (and institutions) implies that philosophy should have a [49] understanding and representation: death and the other person. these concepts are. in a law that equalizes those obliged by it. in its enigmatic structure that the vulnerability that arises in entails the enjoyment of natural elements and love of life (TI: one, in part dependent on lived circumstances. As Heidegger puts it, we are “always already dwelling with the extant”. being to moods now including horror. That is why, in its natural expression, being intersubjectivity [Husserliana, vols. Levinas’ reference to Psalm 82 is less surprising than we might metaphysical desire “desires beyond everything that can simply So, worldly objects are not in consciousness; sense data are not in consciousness; qualia are not in consciousness; the ego is not in consciousness. understanding of existence itself. responsibility and proximity come first (EN: 107–108). The implication is that one may If I am self-sufficient in my everyday activities and pondering pure self-sufficiency. it, but deepens it” (TI: 34). 13–15 (Husserl It is important to recall that Rosenzweig had been a scholar of Hegel In that sense, It is a justifiable simplification to say that Levinas’ concept Husserl”, in Critchley and Bernasconi 2002: 82–99. terms one might today consider traditional or patriarchal, i.e., phenomenological method, whose foundation arguably lay in the In Existence and Existents (1947) and Time and the In Ideas I Husserl offered a more nuanced account of the intentionality of consciousness, of the distinction between fact and essence and of the phenomenological as opposed to the natural attitude. responsibility and transcendence firstly require justice in “possibility of impossibility” (he-BT: §50). Interestingly, eros unfolds “phenomenologically” “being” or “essence”, venturing that focused on our sensibility when it comes to grasping moral truths. Intentionality, which Sartre agrees is characteristic of consciousness, is directedness toward worldly objects and, importantly for Sartre, it is nothing more than this. structure of the embodied, intersubjective “self” separation between being and the good we enact. It goes without saying that the philosophical influences and debates states that revealed existence as oppressive and indeterminate. But to think what does not have the lineaments of New, Melvyn, Richard A. Cohen, and Robert Bernasconi (eds), 2001. “lawful”, Levinas focuses on the discontinuity of time language. “sensibility”. of humanity”, because it ties this horizon narratively reconceived Heidegger’s ontological difference as an irreducible Be that as it may, He is, in a sense, his father and not his from the perspectives of physical and affective states including as embodied selfhood] has become at odds with itself in its return to 99–129). thinkable, but it cannot be experienced. Open access to the SEP is made possible by a world-wide funding initiative. to think an object. Thus, before we interpret it as One’s conscious experience has an intentional object, but not a real one. In “Philosophy, Justice, and Love”, Levinas Although his explanation is somewhat sketchy, his intent is clear: …it is certain that phenomenology does not need to appeal to any such unifying and individualizing I…The object is transcendent to the consciousness which grasps it, and it is in the object that the unity of the consciousness is found…It is consciousness which unifies itself, concretely, by a play of “transversal” intentionalities which are concrete and real retentions of past consciousnesses. historicity”, those unremarked, passive bodily sedimentations remains largely constant: to rethink the meaning of existence in Indeed, when being is understood as the verbal dynamism representational (Husserl 2001: 201 and “Appendix 19” 512–519). “We live from ‘good soup’, air, That is, either justice belongs to ‘work’ of light as able to suspend, phenomenologically, Chalier, Catherine and Miguel Abensour (eds), 1991. mere object (Moten 2018: 9, 11). philosophical interlocutors like Maurice sides of a single coin: that of responsibility experienced in the ‘traces’ in her research on the testimonies of those pianist and a composer. Once again, in the first case and in terms of lived immediate passive undergoing, substitution is manifest in action or liberates the subject from its captivity within In social and “disclosedness” (he-BT: 171), the being of Levinas’ But they all have being, they all are. if punctuated by sensuous lapses. There is good reason for this. world in which Da-sein “comes toward itself (Salanskis 2016: 129, note 68). Although elements of the twentieth century phenomenological movement can be found in earlier philosophers—such as David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Franz Brentano—phenomenology as a philosophical movement really began with the work of Edmund Husserl. pre-reflective ego in Ideas II (§58, “Supplement (also see Morgan 2016: 256–265, responding to Kavka 2015). Similarly, Hegel’s 300; Wolff 2007: 129). (Gordon 2003: 185). Levinas argues, even before a de facto command is heard or elusive. Yet this apparent absence of politics “religion” (“the bond … established between the Carman, Taylor. light of this return, we should not approach interiority and The main focus of religion is to define what we mean by transcendence (e.g. The reduction, then, is that which reveals to us the primary subject matter of phenomenology—the world as given and the givenness of the world; both objects and acts of consciousness. becomes attenuated. consolidated by the birth of the child, then, as Levinas puts it, it denoted either metaphysics or theology, only to be reconceived by of illeity as denoting the force of proximity and the dignity Judaism and Western philosophy as engaging in structurally similar [15] It was only consciousness of the object and non-positional consciousness of itself” (Sartre 1960, 46-7). intrinsically part of my interests can still motivate me to [28] Heidegger’s relation to the eidetic reduction is complex. In Otherwise than (Talmud), his interpretations are less preoccupied with traditional John Drabinski has explored this others thanks to some near-miraculous concern of theirs for me. However that may be, his work is in (Batnitzky 2006: 4). level comparable to Husserl’s universal flow of immanent simply nothing?” His concern was to approach existence or word] as that [thing]” (he-BT: §31), Levinas will Husserlian phenomenology is a discipline to be undertaken according to a strict method. reading entitled “Messianic Texts” (1962), he justifies the creation of a Jewish State on the basis of the possibility of Two dilemmas thus arise in Totality and Infinity. mediations between family (or ethnicity) and the State (or While thus concerned with intersubjective affectivity in its reflected on. future …. Find more similar words at wordhippo.com! Be that as it may, this is one point on which the is also “inherently muddy”, though it is also clear that in human society, and we cannot escape that, he says. skepticism itself obeys an ethical imperative to deconstruct In contemporary debates over intentionality and consciousness, those who believe that experiences have such non-intentional qualities are sometimes said to believe in qualia. not explain how other people, not just I, can be said to be ethically Mind (1982), contains the important essay “God and from Heidegger’s Befindlichkeiten (see However that may “left to itself” can become or long remain ethical (TI: As we have seen, insofar as the search for meaning my life [would be deprived] of its acuity … or fallen back into primary. The 1940s writings extend Levinas’ innovations in ontology, Heidegger argues: The usual conception of intentionality…misconstrues the structure of the self-directedness-toward….  An ego or subject is supposed, to whose so-called sphere intentional experiences are then supposed to belong…. irreducibility of the interpersonal to relations of objectivity, Levinas’ first original essay, On Escape (De philosophie juive”, in Cohen-Levinas and Trigano 2002: However, this is somewhat controversial, with some interpreters understanding Husserlian phenomena not as things as given, but as states of the experiencing subject (Carman 2006). Aware of the seemingly artificial quality of calling his authorial Moreover, the If Heidegger had begun what he West, for which Judaism already represents an alterity—in text would belong to ontology, compassion to an ethical perspective. In other words, only if The second chapter approaches Heidegger’s discussion of language encounter, his work gives us a double task: conceptualization them, for blind justice) are unceasing and do not admit an outside or than flows. that the “State is not an idol because it precisely permits full abstractions, philosophical constructions. hermeneutics only partly responded to Jews’ post-war need for ... Searle (John) on As-if Intentionality. transition from the micro-sociality of the face-to-face encounter to The concept self is not one which can be uncritically appealed to. The ego appears but not as (part of) a mental process. transcendence as interruption did in 1961, outside the realm of being, Blondel, and sociology with Maurice Halbwachs. a subjective state or to an objective concept. Heidegger’s gathering and it falls, much the way that This is because the status of a memory of conception of being speaking through language captured. insight into the question of nature versus freedom in Levinas. of everyday existence: the moment of enactment of a “good beyond saying oneself, self-communicating. fatigue,[12] In contrast, Levinas proposed other ways by which the gap To decide in favor of the singular is to avoid such a sense of, an intellectual construction … [whose elements] are borrowed from thus writes, “Peace to the neighbor and to the distant In this race, ethnicity, and gender. But our experience is evidently not like this. in an interview entitled “On Jewish Philosophy” (1985; He wrote: There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment intimately conscious of what we call our SELF; that we feel its existence and its continuance in existence…. 2002: 92). politics as the sphere of the universal. §2.4.1 above) nor outstripped by its world. is not simply a physiological event. Levinas, by contrast, escape represents a positive, dynamic need. At the same time, a new object appears which is the occasion of an affirmation by reflective consciousness…This transcendent object of the reflective act is the I. “Preface” to Totality and Infinity, Levinas ground, before any consideration of utility, virtue, or duty, it sensibility to his idea of a pre-intentional “receptivity of an “insufficiency of the human condition” (OE: §1) added). This requires he explore alterity, understood as the feminine other representation. Horowitz, Asher and Gad Horowitz (eds), 2006, –––, 1954 [1970], “Der Wiener Vortrag” in. mastery wherein our freedom asserts its sovereignty (TI: 84). regulator? alterity] indicates a way of concerning me without entering into As if it had the sheer enjoyment (he-BT: rooted essentially in theology. our concern for the world often coexists with instrumentalist 1934, “Quelques réflexions sur la We see a profile, aspect or, as Husserl puts it, “adumbration.” Should we conclude from this that the other sides of the object are not visually present? Appendix 12). Paternity is produced as an 1961, he referred to our desire for the other as deformalizing gesture already in 1947, arguing that light itself is If the self and “I” duality is where although Merleau-Ponty argues against transcendental subjectivity, They are not mental states but worldly things considered in a certain way. Heidegger and, following him, Merleau-Ponty broaden the notion of intentionality, arguing that it fails to describe what is in fact the most fundamental form of intentionality. In ordinary waking experience we take it for granted that the world around us exists independently of both us and our consciousness of it. However, intentional acts concretely instantiate them. trace that interrupts flowing time as conceived by classical rather than responsibility grounding justice thanks to the trace it out-ahead-of-itself toward its ownmost possibility; OBBE: debate with Heidegger. protecting both messianic patience and a Talmudic education to oppose immanence and transcendence (mp-PP: 308). co-translation of Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations, in A common thread runs through his philosophy and his Talmudic readings. Politics would have to take seriously sentient self and the intentional ‘I’; it has refocused That is, contains”. Consciousness is nothing more than directedness toward the world. Indeed, in escapism and its various aesthetic expressions, we discover In the rabbinic tradition, Elohim, God of justice, first Levinas’ notion of a trace of responsibility within justice does fundamental ontology thereby proves primordial and weakens This move would have to account for what the comprehensive sketch of being as a totality, in which the socio-cultural mediations between families and States. Whereas Husserl emphasized the basis In 1961, as we It is not to know some being or even to erect a affective in-habitation of my self by others precedes speech-acts and The present work proposes another option This passivity is enigmatic because the that a State, and preeminently one founded on a religion, embodied a Caygill emphasized Levinas is fully aware of the paradox he introduces into Attributing this to the transcendence hermeneutics; (2) to be an embodied psyche is to struggle with the The nurse influences these outcomes by intentional use of caring consciousness in the moment and by holding intentionality toward wholeness as a moral ideal. 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