The body and language in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas

ISBN-13: 9783330966949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 532 str.

Louis Philippe Benoit

Opis

So in a more classical way, since Aristotle, man has been defined as an animal gifted with language, Levinas's thought leads us to think of a new humanism, in the structures of otherness, passivity, openness, proximity, exposure and responsibility. From the outset, man, as a being of language, is also a being "of flesh and blood". Thus, he is known as a being of flesh and language. To think about subjectivity, we must think of it as a territory, made up of two domains: body and language. It is from the body that we can discover the concreteness of man. It is from language that we can send him an address, a summons and also respond to this address. The new humanism, the humanism of the other man, thus is of body and language, like "his two hands of the humble creature", is assigned to responsibility for oneself and for others. The experience of the body and language are the two pillars which allow us to think about the interhuman relationship, necessary for an experience of transcendence and its significance.