I really enjoyed what we did on Monday. I feel like now I have a better grasp on what the "face" Levinas talks about is. It's almost as if his intent was to make his point(s) hard for normal readers to comprehend. What's confusing about this idea of the "face" is that it's both immanent and transcendent in nature. But how? How can something both exist, and go beyond existence? Still pondering that...
I feel like we should go back over how time works as well. The notes I have over it are slightly confusing because they lack content.
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Marin, I think you have summed up Levinas's philosophical project perfectly. The question he is asking is, " How can something both exist, and go beyond existence?" For him, this is what the Other does, and the face is the phenomenon that evidences this paradox.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed the chance to linger a bit on Levinas's theory... I know that we knocked the class off-schedule just a bit, but Levinas was quite dense. In spite of that, he has a lot to offer and I was very happy with the chance to delve a little bit deeper into his work. I think I know what my next paper is going to be on... count me as fascinated.
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