The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Levinas
The article offers a possible reading of transcendence in Levinas from the perspective of the phenomenon of responsibility, a reading that is only possible from the logic of freedom as the transcendence of returning without having ever left. This entails accepting that sensibility is the ground zer...
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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| description | The article offers a possible reading of transcendence in Levinas from the perspective of the phenomenon of responsibility, a reading that is only possible from the logic of freedom as the transcendence of returning without having ever left. This entails
accepting that sensibility is the ground zero of the situation, which makes evident that human beings are embodied before transcending and responding. Therefore, the body’s corporality is the fact that makes possible a responsible subject. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-775af74b160b4e3897eddc8c5f18ee412022-12-22T02:41:50ZengUniversidad Nacional de ColombiaIdeas y Valores0120-00620120-00622014-08-0163155107121The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in LevinasFernando Escobar Díaz0Universidad Diego Portales - ChileThe article offers a possible reading of transcendence in Levinas from the perspective of the phenomenon of responsibility, a reading that is only possible from the logic of freedom as the transcendence of returning without having ever left. This entails accepting that sensibility is the ground zero of the situation, which makes evident that human beings are embodied before transcending and responding. Therefore, the body’s corporality is the fact that makes possible a responsible subject.http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/idval/article/view/35588/46192E. Levinascorporalityresponsibilitysensibilitytranscendence. |
| spellingShingle | Fernando Escobar Díaz The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Levinas Ideas y Valores E. Levinas corporality responsibility sensibility transcendence. |
| title | The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Levinas |
| title_full | The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Levinas |
| title_fullStr | The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Levinas |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Levinas |
| title_short | The Body and the Transcendence of the Self Brief Notes on the Issue of Subjectivity and Responsibility in Levinas |
| title_sort | body and the transcendence of the self brief notes on the issue of subjectivity and responsibility in levinas |
| topic | E. Levinas corporality responsibility sensibility transcendence. |
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