Nate
Thanks for your comments on Levinas and his relation to Hegel (borrowed or
rediscovered or whatever- just which it is something on which some of
Levinas prestige would seem, in some minds, to hang). There is a long
tradition of thinking about the relation of subject and other and the
primacy of ethics in metaphysics and communication. E.g Aristotle was trying
to nut it out in Book 6 of Metaphysics, but compartmentalised the ethical
from the metaphysical - something that Levinas emphatically avoids.
I would add in relation to communication that it is pretty hard to
understand how human communication could be explained without something like
a subject 'already already conditioned by and interrupted by the other.'
Ross
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