Levinas, Derrida, & the Other

In Totality and Infinity, Emmanuel Levinas’s develops a phenomenology of the other and totality. Levinas shows how the other’s infinity breaks with totalization. By totalization, Levinas means the reduction of other to the same. The same or totality is the aim of Western philosophy, i.e. an exhaustive albeit scientific systemization. Levinas’s phenomenology of the other … More Levinas, Derrida, & the Other