Essays about: "Emmanuel Levinas"

Found 3 essays containing the words Emmanuel Levinas.

  1. 1. Riveted : Levinas' Early Stuff

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofi

    Author : Aron Ericson; [2022]
    Keywords : Levinas; transcendence; excendence; phenomenology; ontology; Heidegger;

    Abstract : This study is an examination of the early philosophical writings by Emmanuel Levinas, and shows how transcendence became his guiding question. The study has three parts. Part One lays out Levinas' early enthusiasm with regard to Heidegger's phenomenology. Part Two consists of close readings of three essays by Levinas from 1933 to 1935. READ MORE

  3. 2. THE BIOPOLITICS OF DOMESTIC WORK AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEMALE 'OTHER' : REIMAGINING SPACES, LABOR, AND REPRESENTATIONS OF LIVE-IN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN FILM

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Zoi Kourtoglou; [2017]
    Keywords : Cinema; biopower; biopolitics; maids; Antonio Negri; Michael Hardt; domestic space; heterotopia; Michel Foucault; immaterial labor; resistance; Emmanuel Levinas;

    Abstract : Representations of female characters in cinema have the effect of othering the female in front of the viewer’s gaze. Women’s characters are constructed along the lines of their gender and race difference. READ MORE

  4. 3. Increasing De-personalization in Warfare : Levinasian Words on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Petter Danckwardt; [2015]
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    Abstract : What are the implications when robots are pre-programmed to “behave ethically”? What are the implications between the other and me when lethal autonomous weapons systems by themselves target and destroy human beings? In this paper, I address these two inter-related questions through the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Firstly (chapter I), I set out to clarify the meaning of “lethal autonomous weapons systems” by discussing concepts such as robot, autonomy, and by outlining the debates regarding these emerging weapons. READ MORE