reni:
Again, as a novice, I am only trying to place Levinas in the tradition. A natural opposition I jumped to was Heidegger's emphasis on the confrontation with Being versus Levinas' focus on the other. When Damon said something to the effect that, for Levinas, subjectivity comes only in the presence of the other (something Heidegger would not agree with, to my mind), that sounded quite Hegelian. But I won't be making any further remarks on Levinas until I have read him at some length, which will be after the journal edition is compiled but hopefully before the book is finished.
Dan
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