Gagarin Sixty Years Later: Earth and Place after Heidegger and Levinas

In this article I re-examine the well-known distinction between rootedness and uprootedness that Emmanuel Levinas draws in his short text “Heidegger, Gagarin and Us” (1961). This distinction addresses the relation between men and place either as an attachment to place (paganism, Heidegger) or as a f...

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Auteur principal: Cools, Arthur (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2024
Dans: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Année: 2024, Volume: 32, Numéro: 1, Pages: 156-175
Sujets non-standardisés:B Latour
B uprootedness
B tsimtsum
B exteriority
B dwelling
B Spinoza
B rootedness
B planet Earth
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Résumé:In this article I re-examine the well-known distinction between rootedness and uprootedness that Emmanuel Levinas draws in his short text “Heidegger, Gagarin and Us” (1961). This distinction addresses the relation between men and place either as an attachment to place (paganism, Heidegger) or as a freedom with regard to place (Judaism, Gagarin). I question this opposition from a contemporary perspective in environmental philosophy, namely from the growing awareness of the interconnectedness between place and Earth. I contend that this new perspective changes the understanding of dwelling today because of Earth’s exteriority with regard to place. I argue that this exteriority is neither infinite nor a totality.
ISSN:1477-285X
Contient:Enthalten in: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1477285x-12341358