So Near, So Far
Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3522336 |
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| Authors | Joëlle Hansel (Collège de Physique et de Philosophie, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 922 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel12110922 |
| OpenAlex | W3210464144 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
The purpose of my article is to shed light on the relationship of proximity and distance that linked two major figures of 20th-century French philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch. This article presents a comparative study of their respective views on Metaphysics and Ethics. It also deals with their contribution to the reflection on the fact of "Being Jewish", the theme that was at the center of the preoccupations of these two artisans of the renewal of Jewish thought in France after the Shoah. I conduct a comparative analysis between the key concepts of their philosophy: Levinas' "There is" and "Otherness" and Jankélévitch's "I-know-not-what" and "Ipseity". I point out the difference between Levinas' ethics of Otherness and Jankélévitch's morality of paradox. In the section on "Being Jewish", I highlight the crucial distinction they both made between racism and anti-Semitism and the very different meaning they gave to it
Epistemology · Jewish thought · Judaism · Metaphysics · Morality · Racism · Sociology · The Holocaust · Theology · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious studies
| Highly cited | No |
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