The World and Its Nightmare (Levinas on Sense and Nonsense)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F23%3A00571589" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/23:00571589 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-023-09662-w" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-023-09662-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10746-023-09662-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10746-023-09662-w</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The World and Its Nightmare (Levinas on Sense and Nonsense)
Original language description
This text deals with the interpretation of where the meaningfulness of existence and our being in the world in Emmanuel Levinas’s conception originates in its contrast to the similar conception developed by phenomenology of appearing which is represented by M. Heidegger and H. Maldiney. I want to show on what premises Levinas argues that the epiphany of sense can only emerge in the case of a continuous overcoming of the nonsense of appearing and thus of Being as such. Therefore, I intend to go through the steps of Levinas’ reasoning, which he never developed systematically, and explain why he can view Being as nonsensical and what this notion of nonsense could possibly mean in Levinas’s philosophy. As a result, I would like present an implicit argumentation behind Levinas’s well-known claim that the birth of sense must be of ethical origin and cannot arise through the process of appearing or Being alone.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-22224S" target="_blank" >GA21-22224S: The “Face of Nature” in Contemporary French Phenomenology. The Challenges of a New Meta-Ethics and Ecology</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Human Studies
ISSN
0163-8548
e-ISSN
1572-851X
Volume of the periodical
46
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
79-99
UT code for WoS article
000924651800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85147372362