Emmanuel Levinas, n.Definitions

Emmanuel Levinas is concerned with the question of whether the human subject is not, in its essence, as is often claimed, a self-presence striving in dialectical appropriation of all otherness, but rather might be a primordial passivity, a sentience, a kind of re.

Emmanuel Levinas is concerned with the question of whether the human subject not, in its essence, as often claimed, a self-presence striving in dialectical appropriation of all otherness, but rather might be a primordial passivity, a sentience, a kind of re.