C’est là que Brossard et moi commençâmes à perdre notre complicité. J’étais le préféré du pion de toute la promo, pour toute l’année de sixième. Mais les temps avaient changés. Deux ans plus tard, et j’étais repéré à tenir la main d’une fille, ou surpris dans la cour de l’école à donner un piou furtif…
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Levinas: For the Feminine Other – Introduction
Emmanuel Levinas is not a philosopher of love. The Lithuanian-born, French Jewish thinker gave birth to a rather substantial œuvre, writing for nearly seventy years on a variety of themes and questions. If love appears in the prose of Levinas, it is not as a topic in itself…
Levinas: For the Feminine Other – Part 1
It is undeniable that Levinas tends to submit numbers of formulations, expressions or hypotheses that seem, to say the least, controversial. In Existents and Existence, Levinas states, “the other par excellence is the feminine,” a proposition that would be complemented, one year later in Time and the Other with the view that the pure “essence” of the feminine is otherness or alterity…