[lit-ideas] Re: Ontology and such
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:33:47 -0700 (PDT)
Maybe we could look at some of Hitler's speeches and see if they are
characterized solely by analytical rationality and lack of any emotional
appeal. I would hardly think so.
http://www.hitler.org/speeches/
O.K.
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From: Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 12:40 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Ontology and such
"The main source of levinas' critique of heidegger is the fact that the
german philosopher makes the ethics (the relation to the other)
subservient to ontology. Therefore heidegger does not succeed in
overcoming western ontology but rather realizes the basic features of
western ontology in a new way: priority of autonomy over heteronomy,
Priority of truth over justice and priority of totality over the
existent. Only in the ethical imputation of responsibility for the other is
this priority given up since the absolute demand of justice, Which
makes the subject responsible, Touches the self before thinking can take
initiative."
http://www.mendeley.com/research/ontology-ethics-reflections-levinas-critique-heidegger/
Thence, this (late) Levinasian view corresponds well with the (early) Levinas
of the 1933 essay on Hitlerism. There, Levinas pointed out that a hallmark of
the "philosophy" of National Socialism was that it relieed on a cold, analytic
rationality.
Mvh / Yours,
Torgeir Fjeld, PhD
Gdansk, Poland
Blogs: http://phatic.blogspot.com // http://norsketegn.blogspot.com
Web: http://independent.academia.edu/TorgeirFjeld
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