Intersubjectivity in The Early Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

• Thesis title in Czech: Intersubjektivita v rané filosofii Emmanuela Lévinase
• Thesis title in English: Intersubjectivity in The Early Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas
• Key words: Emmanuel Lévinas|existencia|bytie|inakosť|Druhý|transcendencia|etika|intersubjektivita|metafyzika|ontológia
• English key words: Emmaunel Levinas|existence|Being|alterity|The Other|transcendence|ethics|intersubjectivity|metaphysics|ontology
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2022/2023
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of Philosophy and Religious Studies (21-UFAR)
• Supervisor: Daniele De Santis, Dott. Ric.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 29.11.2022
• Date of assignment: 30.11.2022
• Administrator's approval: approved
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 06.12.2022
• Date and time of defence: 12.06.2023 09:30
• Date of electronic submission: 19.05.2023
• Date of proceeded defence: 12.06.2023
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: doc. Mgr. Jakub Čapek, Ph.D.

Guidelines

This thesis aims to examine the concept of intersubjectivity as viewed in the earlier thinking of E. Levinas, with the main focus on his work Totality and Infinity. The main goal is to clarify Levinas‘ understanding of the other person and of the way the relationship to the other is built while paying attention to the elements constituting this relationship and certain results that this understanding of the other brings. At the same time, it is important to give an explanation of the subject’s relationship to Being, the phenomenon il y a and Levinas‘ criticism of self-sufficiency and individuality, which directly leads to a need to look for the transcendental in the other.

References

Primární literatura:
Levinas, Emmanuel.Totality and Infinity. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne University Press, 1969.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Ethics and Infinity. Translated by Richard A. Cohen. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne University Press, 1982.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Time and The Other. Translated by Richard A. Cohen. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Duquesne University Press, 1987.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Existence and Existent. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988.
Levinas, Emmanuel. On Escape. Translated by Bettina Bergo. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Sekundární literatura:
Derrida, Jacques. Writing and Difference. Translated by Alan Bass. London: Routledge Classics, 2001.
Mensch, James R. Levinas’s existential analytic. Illinois: Northwestern University Press Evanston, 2015.
Davidson, Scott a Perpich, Diane (vyd.). Totality and infinity at 50. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 2012.