Shame, de-subjectivation and passivity – on the metaphysics of the Self in Levinas and Agamben

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  • Fabricio Pontin PhD (Philosophy, 2013) at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Post-Doctoral Researcher (PNPD-CAPES) at the Graduate Program in Philosophy at PUC-RS; Associate Professor (Law/International Relations) at LaSalle University, Canoas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2018.1.30069

Palabras clave:

Shame, Desire, Ethics, Affective Tonalities

Resumen

This article provides a relation between the problem of shame in both Levinas and Agamben, focusing, for the most part, in the development of Levinas' metaphysics and its relation to the emotional tonality of shame in three works: "On Escape", "Time and the Other" and "Otherwise than Being". In stressing the unique take that Levinas has on metaphysics, I try to point at the tension between Jewish and Greek thought in Levinas, and his option for a radical notion of a situated understanding of the "ethical". Hence my interest in contrasting Levinas and Agamben, as Agamben's appropriation of Levinas' lexicon in his "Remnants of Aushwitz" places the subject in a political, and material, position which is ultimately uncompatible with Levinas' situational and metaphysical take on the self.

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AGAMBEN, Giorgio. Remnants of Auschwitz: The witness and the archive. New York: Zone Books, 2002.

____. Means without end : Notes on Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2000

LEVINAS, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2007

____. On escape. Stanford: Stanford University press, 2003

____.Otherwise than being. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998

STEINBOCK, Anthony. “Generativity and the scope of generative phenomenology” in WELTON, Donn. (Org) The New Husserl: A critical reader. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003

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Publicado

2018-04-23

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Pontin, F. (2018). Shame, de-subjectivation and passivity – on the metaphysics of the Self in Levinas and Agamben. Veritas (Porto Alegre), 63(1), 190–205. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-6746.2018.1.30069

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Dossie - Filosofia Judaica