La dette calculée de Derrida envers Lévinas
La dette calculée de Derrida envers Lévinas

Summary/Abstract: Derrida's intellectual itinerary shows a progressive reconciliation with Levinas' ethical thinking. "Violence and Metaphysics", one of Derrida's earlier essays, was highly critical of Levinas' "phallotheology", whereas his later works were more receptive to the Levinasian analysis on hospitality, "cities of refuge" (villes-refuges) and justice. This essay will discuss the mutual terminological exchanges between Derrida and Levinas as well as some divergences between the two thinkers regarding the deconstruction project. Finally, we will see how Derrida distinguishes himself from Levinas' ethics by bringing an end to the search for the conditions of possibility of experience in favour of a more radical experience of the impossible and the inconditional.

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