So Near, So Far: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch

The purpose of my article is to shed light on the relationship of proximity and distance that linked two major figures of 20th-century French philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch. This article presents a comparative study of their respective views on Metaphysics and Ethics. It also...

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Autor principal:	Joëlle Hansel
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	metaphysics ethics French philosophy Judaism anti-Semitism “There is” (“Il y a”) Religions. Mythology. Rationalism BL1-2790
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6f6a7d454c9c48d5a5802d52ed799c4b2021-11-25T18:52:34ZSo Near, So Far: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch10.3390/rel121109222077-1444https://doaj.org/article/6f6a7d454c9c48d5a5802d52ed799c4b2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/11/922https://doaj.org/toc/2077-1444The purpose of my article is to shed light on the relationship of proximity and distance that linked two major figures of 20th-century French philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch. This article presents a comparative study of their respective views on Metaphysics and Ethics. It also deals with their contribution to the reflection on the fact of “Being Jewish”, the theme that was at the center of the preoccupations of these two artisans of the renewal of Jewish thought in France after the Shoah. I conduct a comparative analysis between the key concepts of their philosophy: Levinas’ “There is” and “Otherness” and Jankélévitch’s “I-know-not-what” and “Ipseity”. I point out the difference between Levinas’ ethics of Otherness and Jankélévitch’s morality of paradox. In the section on “Being Jewish”, I highlight the crucial distinction they both made between racism and anti-Semitism and the very different meaning they gave to it.Joëlle HanselMDPI AGarticlemetaphysicsethicsFrench philosophyJudaismanti-Semitism“There is” (“Il y a”)Religions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790ENReligions, Vol 12, Iss 922, p 922 (2021)
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description	The purpose of my article is to shed light on the relationship of proximity and distance that linked two major figures of 20th-century French philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch. This article presents a comparative study of their respective views on Metaphysics and Ethics. It also deals with their contribution to the reflection on the fact of “Being Jewish”, the theme that was at the center of the preoccupations of these two artisans of the renewal of Jewish thought in France after the Shoah. I conduct a comparative analysis between the key concepts of their philosophy: Levinas’ “There is” and “Otherness” and Jankélévitch’s “I-know-not-what” and “Ipseity”. I point out the difference between Levinas’ ethics of Otherness and Jankélévitch’s morality of paradox. In the section on “Being Jewish”, I highlight the crucial distinction they both made between racism and anti-Semitism and the very different meaning they gave to it.
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So Near, So Far: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch

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