In his first reading of Husserlian phenomenology, Levinas offered a very interesting criticism of the very notion of intuition, understood as an impossible pretension to grasp in its supposed immediacy the self-giving of the Origin. In his mature work, the role of the Husserlian intuition is played by desire: but the latter is conceived in its strong irreducibility to nostalgia. Human desire is always desire of the same for the other. This paper tries to understand the delayed temporalityof desire as (...) rooted in the radical past of separation. (shrink)

In his first reading of Husserlian phenomenology, Levinas offered a very interesting criticism of the very notion of intuition, understood as an impossible pretension to grasp in its supposed immediacy the self-giving of the Origin. In his mature work, the role of the Husserlian intuition is played by desire: but the latter is conceived in its strong irreducibility to nostalgia. Human desire is always desire of the same for the other. This paper tries to understand the delayed temporalityof desire as (...) rooted in the radical past of separation. (shrink)

“Being is what requires creation of us for us to experience it,” wrote Maurice Merleau‐Ponty in The Visible and the Invisible (1968 [1964], p. 197; emphasis in the original).

O texto investiga a constituição da subjetividade ética no pensamento de Levinas, com especial ênfase na estrutura de mediação que estrutura faticamente o sentido da irrupção da alteridade no universo auto-referente do “mesmo”, em termos de uma “ética temporalizada”.

O Autor investiga os conceitos de política e religião na obra do filósofo Emmanuel Lévinas, destacando principalmente suas mútuas implicações e detendo-se na característica corretiva da concepção levisiana de religião com relação à política que, deixada a ela mesma em um processo de auto justificação, degenera em totalidade.