The other as unknown and the feminine as utter alterity. About the returning of face to face communication in Emmanuel Lévinas

Authors

  • Ciro Marcondes Filho Escola de Comunicações e Artes - USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v1i1p55-74

Keywords:

dialogue, face-to-face communication, feminine as an utter alterity

Abstract

Lévinas presents in contemporary criticism the returning of the ethic issue in social sciences. In this way, he criticizes the structuralist approach whose origins are provided by Hegelian philosophy, which conveys all phenomena in unconscious and impersonal structures. Lévinas brings back the dialogue where the other we talk to is an utter alterity. That is, an otherness that can never be overcome and that places in me what yet was not in me.

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Author Biography

  • Ciro Marcondes Filho, Escola de Comunicações e Artes - USP
    Professor titular da Escola de Comunicações e Artes da USP.

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Published

2007-10-15

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2007)

Section

Dossier

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How to Cite

Marcondes Filho, C. (2007). The other as unknown and the feminine as utter alterity. About the returning of face to face communication in Emmanuel Lévinas. MATRIZes, 1(1), 55-74. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v1i1p55-74