AUC INTERPRETATIONES
AUC INTERPRETATIONES
AUC Interpretationes (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Interpretationes Studia Philosophica Europeanea) is a philosophical journal focusing on 20th-century European philosophy, particularly French and German philosophy, and phenomenology.

AUC INTERPRETATIONES, Vol 6 No 1 (2016), 102–117

Altérité anarchique – Réconciliation de Descartes et Kant dans la dernière pensée d’Emmanuel Levinas

[Anarchic alterity - Reconciliation of Descartes and Kant in the last thought of Emmanuel Levinas]

Masumi Nagasaka

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24646504.2017.16
published online: 13. 04. 2017

abstract

This paper considers the anarchical alterity that Emmanuel Levinas discusses in a continuation of the great tradition of critical philosophy, beginning with Descartes and Kant. In this vein, we examine the concept of self-criticism or the criticism of knowledge by knowledge itself, which we consider to be an axis of the whole corpus of Levinas ’ work. Already presented in Totality and Infinity (1961), this notion is reformulated in Otherwise than Being or Beyond the Essence (1974) on the one hand, in the continuity of Totality and Infinity, and on the other hand, in the radical discontinuity of this work. We clarify this transformation of self-criticism as a conciliation of Cartesian proof of the existence of God and its Kantian critique from which we explain the necessity of anarchy of the alterity.

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