Az alteritás, a többlet és a végtelen – a lévinasi vágyfilozófia kritikai olvasata
Alterity, Surplus and the Infinite – A Critical Reading of Lévinas’ Philosophy of Desire

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the notion of desire in Lévinas’ philosophy, with special attention to the question of its metaphysical character. By relying upon the early works of Lévinas as well, the author deconstructs the notion of desire by pointing at its contradictory relationship to the concept of needs. Attention is devoted to certain phenomenological interpretations (Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Michel Henry) and to the dialectical understanding of desire (Hegel) that enables us to seize the specificity of Lévinas’ viewpoint. At the end of the paper the author discusses the possibility of an ethics of responsive desire within the phenomenology of alterity.

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