Tag: Levinas

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— General Introduction

In the beginning, there never was the foreigner.

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Introduction

Foreignness starts with the foreigner. The argument would be unsurprising, acceptable, evident, perhaps commonsensical…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Part 1

Beyond the individual : the collective, the community, its practices and customs – the human cultures

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book III — Us, Foreigners : The Reconstruction of Foreignness
— Part 2

Heidegger’s Being and Time opens with an intriguing vocable. The German philosopher asks a very particular question : what is the meaning of Being ? …

May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 1

The fact is so evident that we have managed to explore foreignness extensively without discussing it in depth : foreignness is a matter of space…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 2

We have already touched upon the avenir as a radical modification of Heidegger’s temporal project…

May 9, 2014

De L’Infini : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics

Book IV — Beyond the I’s : A Foreigner’s Metaphysics
— Part 3

As we saw, foreignness is greatly a matter of difference…

May 9, 2014
December 6, 2013

Phenomenologies of Time – Introduction
Can science study time? Is time an object of scientific inquiry? Can scientific methods and experiments scrutinise time in a way similar to the study of an instance of matter, a movement or an organism? Defining time has been an intellectual mystery in all societies, and one may arguably concede that in the western tradition of scientific thought, the understanding of time has been set more through postulates and metaphysical assumptions than via a procedure of experimental inspection…