An Institutional Approach to Alterity
Thinking Love in Levinas and Hegel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760098 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher D Dibona (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 462-487 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12407 |
| OpenAlex | W4303199338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Emmanuel Levinas's early work inaugurated a tradition of thinking about alterity as at odds with generalized forms of knowledge that characterize political institutions. However, in his later work Levinas broaches but leaves underdeveloped the provocative idea that institutional modes of reasoning can provide a welcome home for alterity if they follow the wisdom of love. Against this backdrop, I argue that reading G. W. F. Hegel's early writings on neighbor love alongside his mature philosophy of the state offers us important resources for articulating an institutional approach to alterity that offers a compelling solution to Levinas's concern with letting the other(s) be seen by institutions in a non‐totalizing manner. Across his early writings, Hegel positions love as the vehicle through which one comes to be at home in the institutions of one's community and the vehicle through which one can revise and expand the institutions of one's community in novel ways. My aim is to demonstrate that Hegel's early account of love provides an indispensable blueprint for understanding his mature account of the relation between the individual qua infinitely unique and modern political institutions. In turn, this will enable us to discern the institutional approach to alterity embedded in his thought
Aesthetics · Alterity · Epistemology · Hegelianism · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty
Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory
Critique of Pure Reason
A Spirit of Trust
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Religion and Rational Theology
Hegel
Early Theological Writings
Reason in Philosophy
Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom
The Phenomenology of Spirit
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Constructivism in Ethics
Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel
Alterity and Transcendence
Hegel's Practical Philosophy
Edgework
Dismantling the Master's House”
Hegel’s social ethics
Hegel's Social Philosophy
The Third Party. Levinas on the Intersection of the Ethical and the Political
The Postmodern Condition
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |