In the first place, it is necessary to take account of real objects once again, as Whitehead already sensed with his unabashed ... As mentioned earlier, it is not true that I have any more intimate access to language or consciousness or the conditions of speech-acts than I do to a pile of rocks. ... But the notion of thewhole preceding the part also tends to become a dogma in its own right, especially when ... But it is equally true that they do not thereby vaporize into a systematic totality.
The extended concept of tool-being developed here leads us not to a theory of human practical activity but to an ontology of objects themselves. Tool-Being urges a fresh and concrete research into the secret contours of objects.
Levinas ismore widely known forhismajor worksof ethical philosophy (Totality and Infinity, Otherwise Than Being) thanfor the early treatisesthat concernus here . He himself would be pleased by this widespread preference for his later writings , ...
As mentioned throughout this book, the philosophical world has just spent an entire century nurturing everything that pertains to contexts and wholes. It is individual rocks and flowers that are now crying for our attention; this is now the more ...
8 Reacting against this tendency he observes: “The philosophical world has just spent an entire century nurturing everything that pertains to contexts and wholes ...
10 Reacting against this tendency he observes: “The philosophical world has just spent an entire century nurturing everything that pertains to contexts and ...
FIVE Insinuations Enigmas of Responsibility T HE LAST CHAPTER EXPLORED the interventions that Blanchot and Levinas made in one another's work in terms of the relationship between art and ethics. They provided one another with a ...
One of the major practical goals of Levinas' philosophy seems to be to refocus Western consciousness on the primacy of ethics. The proliferation of violence and the suspension of ethical factors and considerations appear to be one of the ...
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