To mark the centenary of the birth of Emmanuel Levinas, this issue of
Subject Matters is dedicated to a thinker who contributed so much to the
theory of the subject and whose work in general has been so influential.
Levinas’ impact on so-called ‘continental philosophy’ and its
Anglo-American constituencies is immeasurable. His thinking on
subjectivity has informed other areas, too, such as psychoanalysis. Yet,
the regions where Levinasian thought might be most appositely deployed, in
politics and communications, have not yet embraced the possibilities that
Levinas offers.
Subject Matters has therefore published a major essay on Levinas, ‘The I
questioned’, by Augusto Ponzio along with responses from 8 of the world’s
major Levinas scholars.
Ponzio himself, of course, is a major figure on the international academic
scene, being a renowned authority on Bakhtin (and the Bakhtin School),
Schaff, Sebeok and semiotics. Full Professor of Philosophy of Language and
General Linguistics and Head of the Department of Linguistic Practices and
Text Analysis at Bari University, Italy, he has published over 70 books,
300 essays, and 50 translations and introductions (from Aristophanes to
Vološinov). A fair number of these have been co-authored with his
collaborator, the formidable scholar, Susan Petrilli; most recently, they
have published a major (600+ pages) treatise entitled Semiotics Unbounded
(2005).
CONTENTS
Preface
Paul Cobley x
The I questioned: Emmanuel Levinas and the critique of occidental reason
Augusto Ponzio 1
The I’s double-answer
Adam Zachary Newton 47
A critique of reason and autochthonous heteronomy
Michael B. Smith 55
The defection of identity
Robert Bernasconi 61
Kenosis and the problem of ‘analogy’
Graham Ward 67
From the self to the other and back to the self – otherwise. Levinas’
redefinition of the subject
Roger Burggraeve 75
Identity: logic vs. culture, some remarks on Québec
Bettina Bergo 105
Concrete abstractions and the ‘Rights of Man’
William Paul Simmons 117
Levinas and politics
Annette Aronowicz 125
Augusto Ponzio: selected further reading
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