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(1999) Levinas between ethics and politics, Dordrecht, Springer.
Election from "beyond the face' in totality and infinity
intersubjectivity grounded in a figurative biology
Bettina Bergo
pp. 105-131
The Fourth Section of TI, "Beyond the Face," merits separate treatment for several reasons. In the first place, it purports to show how a subject's experience of time may extend well beyond the limits of his own life. An indefinite temporal horizon is here evinced by way of a description of the paradigmatic, human experiences of eros, paternity and filiality. If these experiences are rooted in our factical and biological condition, Levinas insists that they point beyond these precisely because they are also symbolic structures of the ethical life. I will have more to say concerning these structures below. Let us first examine the specificity of this Section of TI.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2077-9_6
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Bergo, B. (1999). Election from "beyond the face' in totality and infinity: intersubjectivity grounded in a figurative biology, in Levinas between ethics and politics, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 105-131.
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