Essays about: "Levinas"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word 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. Learning from the other : Dialogues with unaccompanied refugee children about barriers and possibilities for health and participation

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik

    Author : Maria Tornée Bergström; [2020]
    Keywords : learning; health; illness; the other; unaccompanied refugee children; everyday life; dialogue; direct scribing; belonging; othering; categorization; dislocation; phenomenology; hermeneutics; pragmatism;

    Abstract : As a departure for the study, statistics regarding the increased experiences of illness, especially psychic, among children and youth, were presented. With inspiration from Maxwell´s (2013) interactive design, and guided from the perspectives of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the study was placed into the lived everyday world of the participants. READ MORE

  4. 3. Hospitality Fostering Integration : Reassessing Hospitality in Migration Ethics

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Lois Lindholm; [2019]
    Keywords : hospitality; integration; migration ethics; Kant; Derrida; Levinas; virtue ethics; courage; humility; patience;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses the concept of hospitality in the context of migration ethics. The underlying philosophical ideas of Kant, Levinas and Derrida are outlined and critically discussed. READ MORE

  5. 4. Beyond the Betrayal of Language : On the Role of Skepticism in Otherwise than Being

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Sara Alma Safije Sheikhi; [2018]
    Keywords : levinas; metaphysics; discourse; metaphilosophy; scepticism; language philosophy; ethics; otherism; dialogue; levinas; metafysik; diskurs; metafilosofi; skepticism; språkfilosofi; etik; dialog;

    Abstract : In Otherwise than Being (1974), Levinas asked if and how philosophy could make justice of the concrete ethical meeting by philosophical practice, which is unconditionally conditioned by language. Language, understood as partly situated in being and ontology, is analysed as an appropriation of the other, who is other than being. READ MORE

  6. 5. 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