Phenomenology and the face of the other. Controversies on E. Lévinas
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https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.3435Keywords:
the other’s face, ethics, metaphysics, saturated phenomenon, new phenomenologyAbstract
In the paper the author would like to draw readers’ attention to the discussion about the other’s face. The point of reference is the philosophy of E. Lévinas. The French philosopher considered himself a phenomenologist, but if so, someone may ask: what kind of phenomenology is it? and how should be the phenomenon understood? These questions led to a vivid discussion. On the one hand, there is D. Janicaud who severely criticized Lévinas for having made “a theological turn” and thus for having abandoned phenomenology for theology. On the other hand, J.-L. Marion tried to reformulate the Lévinas central idea of the other’s face in a language of the new phenomenology. In the paper the author first presents the position of Lévinas about phenomenology, then goes into critical arguments and discuss them, finally he tries to reformulate in the new way the phenomenon of the other’s face, it means in terms of J.-L. Marion’s new phenomenology.
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