Gratitude Amidst of Signs. Dialogue With the Dialogue of Buber and Levinas Cover Image

Wdzięczność w przestrzeni znaków. Dialog z dialogiem Bubera i Levinasa
Gratitude Amidst of Signs. Dialogue With the Dialogue of Buber and Levinas

Author(s): Paweł Szypowski
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: gratitude; responsibility; dialogue; affirmation; Buber; Levinas; deconstruction

Summary/Abstract: I stand for a philosophical writing engaged in an ethical relation with discussedauthors. The relation despite its obvious immeasurable value is based on a concretecontext of the encounter, performed by a signifier. Gratitude is the phenomenon,which describes properly the ethical relation, for it at once opens the absolute dimensionof an unique other and expresses some onthical content of gestures, giftsand signs, which Myself receives from the others. The article criticises Buber’stheory, due to its ignorance of difference, corporeality, linguistic sign, passivity, etc.For that reason I use Derridian concepts, that enhance (but consequently deconstruct)Levinasian principles.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 61-77
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish
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