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The Problem of the “Nichts” (Rosenzweig) and the “Il y a” (Levinas) as correlate of freedom

The Problem of the “Nichts” (Rosenzweig) and the “Il y a” (Levinas) as correlate of freedom. Luc Anckaert (KULeuven). Introduction. The testimonies of Levinas on Rosenzweig Subjectivity as rupture Relationality Empiricism Judaism and Christianity. Introduction. A speculative gesture

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The Problem of the “Nichts” (Rosenzweig) and the “Il y a” (Levinas) as correlate of freedom

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  1. The Problem of the “Nichts” (Rosenzweig) and the “Il y a” (Levinas) as correlate of freedom Luc Anckaert (KULeuven)

  2. Introduction • The testimonies of Levinas on Rosenzweig • Subjectivity as rupture • Relationality • Empiricism • Judaism and Christianity

  3. Introduction • A speculative gesture • “Nichts” and the structure of the Star • Influence on the early texts of Levinas • The “There is” and subjectivity in Totality and Infinity.

  4. I. Nothing and the structure of the Star • 1. Death as starting point in Rosenzweig • The Threefold Nothing as the ‘end-points’ of Kants Critique • Nothing as existential reality • Nietzsche and the death of GOD • Historicism and the death of the WORLD • Idealism and determinism as the death of MAN

  5. I. Nothing and the structure of the Star • 2. The end-point as new beginning • Schellings later philosophy • Rosenzweig: from death to life • The structure of the Star

  6. I. Nothing and the structure of the Star • The structure of the Star • I: The irreducibility of God-Man-World • II: The relation: creation – revelation – redemption • III: Judaism – Christianity - Thruth

  7. Star of David GOD Revelation Creation MAN WORLD Redemption

  8. II. The earlier texts of Levinas • Points of attention • There is • Hypostasis • A “phenomenological dialectic of human freedom • A double parallelism

  9. III. Totality and Infinity • A double shift: • The secondary place of the There is • “Separation” instead of “Hypostasis”

  10. III. Totality and Infinity • 1. The There is as inner limit of separation • A quality of the elementale • A double limit of separation • The intoxication of enjoyment • The There is for the other man • The There is as flip side of separation

  11. III. Totality and Infinity • 2. The Separation as desire • Separation as self-identification • Phenomenology of Eros • Subject-object structure of intentionality • Social relation vs theoretical intentionality • Transgressive relationality

  12. Conclusion • The early texts of Levinas • A double shift in Totality and Infinity • See also: Luc Anckaert, A Critique of Infinity. Rosenzweig and Levinas, Louvain-Paris-Dudley, 2006

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