Emmanuel Levinas: Subject

Emmanuel Levinas was French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on subject.
Emmanuel Levinas: 22 quotes4 likes

“The transition of the subject-object relation to that of the I-Thou implies a passage of consciousness to a new sphere of existence, viz, the interval, betweenness or Zwichen; and this is a passage from thought to Umfassung.”

Emmanuel Levinas

The Levinas reader by Levinas, Emmanuel p. 73

“The mores I return to myself, the more I divest myself, under the traumatic effect of persecution , of my freedom as a constituted, wilful, imperialistic subject, the more I discover myself to be responsible' the more just I am, the more guilty I am. I am 'in myself' through others.”

Emmanuel Levinas

The Levinas reader by Levinas, Emmanuel p. 102

“By asserting the objectivity of the physical world, natuaralism identifies the existence and the conditions of existence of the physical world with existence and the conditions of existence in general. It forgets that the world of the physicist necessarily refers back, through its intrinsic meaning, through the subjective world which one tries to exclude from reality as being pure appearance, conditioned by the empirical nature of man, which is incapable of reaching directly to a world of things in themselves. But while the world of the physicist claims to go beyond naive experience, his world really exists only in relation to naive experience.”

Emmanuel Levinas

The Theory Of Intuition In Husserls Phenomenology 1963, 1995 p. 9