A Century with Levinas: Notes on the Margins of his Legacy
A Century with Levinas: Notes on the Margins of his Legacy

Summary/Abstract: Levinas’ philosophy: phenomenology, philosophy and religious hermeneutics of Judaism, ethics, metaphysics. A century with Levinas, the question still remains open as to what is truly at stake in his philosophy, beyond the syncretism at work in the reception of his writings, and beyond the too generously used label of “ethics as first philosophy”. Was Levinas strictly speaking a rigorous phenomenologist, or rather a philosopher of Judaism? A thinker of an intense account of the relationship with the Other? Or an amalgamation of all these and even more? Having been in the company of his saying for so long, one might say that it is now time to discard the totality of all marginal and exclusive interpretations, and to look at a multi-facetious way of approaching his work, which would allow for all the dimensions of his writings to be exposed.

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