Langage et Langue chez Husserl et Lévinas
Langage et Langue chez Husserl et Lévinas

Summary/Abstract: In this contribution the author tries to show the relation between Levinas and Husserl regarding the question of language and tongue. He begins by explaining what is the conception of language in the Logical Investigations and of tongue in Ideas II. The former allows Husserl to develop a univocal language, whereas the second reinscribes the tongue in the body with his intersubjective dimension. Husserl will have an influence on Levinas, but the latter will reject his conception of language, for being too formal, and hold Husserl's concept of the tongue to be a presupposition. Thus, the tongue becomes the way the alterity of the other expresses itself, the way a meaning appears independently from the subject.

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