Having suggested that Levinas could be understood better by assuming that it is consciousness and not time that is discontinuous (see, for example, page 284 of...
I thought I would try to discern the connection between the ideas set out in Time and the Other and Lavinas's later interest in speech/language, but first a...
Feeling that before considering the relationship between time and the Other, I should have explained the particular understanding of the nature of time on ...
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I have an inquiry for the group. I am interested in the phrase 'divine comedy' as it crops up from time to time in Levinas's work, for example, in Beyond the...
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Thanks Scott - I will go through Dante to see if I find any clues and will listmembers know if I find anything of interest. Lars Dr Lars Iyer Lecturer in...
Hi Lars, I do hope you'll let us know if you find anything on the Dante trail, but in the meantime I've just read and enjoyed your essay in the latest Janus ...
Helen Douglas
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Helen, thanks! I would be happy to participate in a discussion. Lars ... From: Helen Douglas [mailto:douglas@...] Sent: 16 July 2003 21:47 To:...
Hi Lars and all, Lars introduces the paper by noting that philosophical language is generally seen as simply a medium to get across whatever the writer wants ...
Helen Douglas
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Jul 19, 2003 1:39 pm
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Dear Helen, Thanks for your questions. The paper as it stands is rather compressed (but then what paper isn't!) and I appreciate the chance to open up some of...
Hi again Lars, Okay, there's something thing-like about the other. But isn't that the diachronic nature of Autrui: not either being or "otherwise than", but...
Helen Douglas
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Jul 22, 2003 10:33 am
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Dear Helen, Fascinating questions - I'm taking a couple of days off, so give me some more time to think about them. Lars ... From: Helen Douglas...
Okay, there's something thing-like about the other. But isn't that the diachronic nature of Autrui: not either being or "otherwise than", but both other and...
Dear Helen, that last post went out prematurely by mistake. I continue it here: Here is how I understand the difference between the opening to the other and to...
This conversation sounds neat. Alas, I know nothing about Levinas. Can anyone recommend a good starting point? Oh, Lars, about "Israel's history being the...
Hi Scott, Nice to have you join in. Lars and I are discussing his recent paper "The Unbearable Trauma and Witnessing in Blanchot and Levinas" ...
Helen Douglas
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Jul 24, 2003 12:28 pm
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Dear Scott, Thanks for the remarks on Shekinah. Can you recommend any secondary literature? As for a starting point in reading Levinas, I would follow Helen in...
I only want to comment on the suggestion made regarding reading Kabbalistic texts. While they are certainly not forbidden ( I work in a library) I cant tell...
Hi - my replies again in [HD] ... From: Lars Iyer [SMTP:Lars.Iyer@...] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:24 PM To: levinas@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Helen Douglas
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Hi Lars, I'd like to raise three issues here, but I also need to attend to other matters, so any sketchy response you care to make would be fine . . . 1. You...