Body as Subjectivity to Ethical Signification of the Body: Revisiting Levinas’s Early Conception of the Subject

In Levinas’s early works, the ‘body as subjectivity’ is the focus of research bearing significant implications for his later philosophy of the body. How this is achieved becomes the thrust of this article. We analyze how the existent, through hypostasis, emerges hic et nunc, and explores further its...

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Main Author: Varakukalayil, Jojo Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2015]
In: Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 281-295
RelBib Classification:NBE Anthropology
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Escape
B il y a
B Substitution
B Enchainment
B Passivity
B Body-subject
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