“Ethics requires a subject bearing everything, subjected to everything, obedient with an obedience that precedes all understanding and all listening to the command. Therein lies a reversal of heteronomy into autonomy, and this is the way in which the Infinite comes to pass.” - Emmanuel Levinas
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need to get me on some Levinas
me too, what do you recommend blake?
i've only read a bunch of God Death and Time. not sure if that's the best opener or not, but i am digging it.
i've tried to post something like this twice but it keeps coming out pretentiously:
i feel like a good place to start with levinas is his basic philosophical writings. but it's good, if you don't already, to have a basic understanding of kant, husserl, and heidegger. either way, the prose is gorgeous.
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