Volume 61 (2006), 8

The paper focuses on two „faces“ of Levinas’ Judaism. First, the author mentions Levinas’ significant biographic moments to suggest how rich and deep were the sources that influenced him from his early childhood: Latvian Judaism represented especially by the gaon of Vilno and the so called Musar movement, Russian secondary school, university education in… Read more

In his final interview published under the title Apprendre a vivre enfin Derrida returns to the recurrent theme of his work namely responsibility, but this time also with the regard to death. Drawing critically on the works of Heidegger and Levinas, Derrida explores in his later work Gift of Death "history of responsibility" from Plato's… Read more

The paper remembers some features of the Husserlian conception of the phenomenon in order to show the ways of the inversion imposed to it by Levinas, namely in his book Totalité et infini and in his article „Intentionnalité et sensation“. In these texts it is still possible to maintain a fundamental description of the phenomenon as „experience/vécu/Erlebnis“ even… Read more

What happens with the thought, in which suddenly horror alieni breaks out? This question will be discussed in the context of (not only) Emmanuel Levinas’ philosophy. This papper is an attempt to approach several problems related with the philosophy of the Other, including the problem of separate world, anaesthesiological strategies of the subject, the… Read more

Basically it is not possible to fully understand Levinas’ ethical axioms without the comprehension of his time scheme. This is to be defended here as it is important to show the time awareness apparent in its relationship to the infinity which is essentially preconditioned by death. The term time does not necessarily include the „conatus essendi“, however… Read more