These posts on Levinas and the Other are fascinating and I for one would
like to signal my gratitude to the posters. They have been very
informative. I am because of the posts going to catch up with Levinas. I
am especially interested in exploring Levinas through the Bhaskarian
dialectic. This has (in the 1993 version) four
moments/sides/levels/whatever. The first of which called 1M (First moment
Doh!). For Bhaskar this deals with
"...the concepts of structure, differentiation, change, *alterity* (as in
the transitive/intransitive distinction - epistemic/ontic non identity
within ontology) transfactual efficacy, emergence, openness etc... (
Dialectic The Pulse of Freed, Verso: 1993: 8, emphasis added).
Unfortunately a lot of this Bhaskar Speak won't make a great deal of sense
to those who have not fallen prey to the charms of Transcendental
Dialectical Critical Realism! However there is I believe space for a
potentially fruitful investigation of the links between the First Moment of
the Bhaskarian Dialectic and the work of Levinas on the Other. As an
initial thought, I would guess that Levinas would enable us to rethink the
First Moment in an ethical and a spiritual sense. Bhaskar's dialectic is of
course wider than the moment of alterity and deals also with negation,
totality and agency and so could be used to extend Levinas' work. But that
is just an initial speculation.
Re below - yes I will have my fingers crossed for the game but they will be
crossed for the former colonialists (Cole not withstanding)
regards
Gary
>So, fingers crossed for the England - Nigeria game tomorrow, eh?
>
>Cheers, Jon
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