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The Tragic Sense of Levinas' Ethics University of Antwerp
This article examines the dimension of the tragic experience in Levinas' ethics, a dimension that seems at odds with his claim to define justice in a new way: no longer as a relation of reciprocity between members of a community, but according to the individual and asymmetrical relation to the other. On several occasions, Levinas expresses the intention to overcome the fatality of being and to break with the totalitarian effects of the State ...
Réflexions sur l'exigence fragmentaire University of Antwerp
The tragic sense of Levinas' ethics University of Antwerp
This article examines the dimension of the tragic experience in Levinas's ethics. This dimension seems at odds with this ethics' claim to define justice in a new way - no longer as a relation of reciprocity between members of a community, but newly according to the individual and asymmetrical relation to the Other. On several occasions, Levinas expresses the intention to overcome the fatality of being and to break with the totalitarian effects ...