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Ethical signifying in late Levinas
Bierhanzl, Jan ; Novotný, Karel (advisor) ; Calin, Rodolphe (referee) ; Bensussan, Gérard (referee)
The paper here presented attempts to retrace the course of the ethical signifying. Although the main characteristic feature of this movement of signifying is the « for-the-other », we show that following the double phenomenological method called concretisation-andemphasis, Levinas accomplishes this movement by means of other features: « unique sense », « starting from the self », « despite oneself », « the other in the same », « I am an other », « for nothing » and « by the other ». The chapter II brings a borderline feature « one-for-all-the others » which articulates ethics with justice. It has an ambivalent status between brotherhood (responsability for the close neighbour and the distant one) and justice (relation between equals) and is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for the genesis of language. Eventhough, this list is not exhaustive, but simply indicative. This paper is not anything more than a digression in the movement of ethical signifying, an infinite movement, which precedes diachronically every attempt to give an account of it and interrupts the sense that the author believes putting in words. Then the investigations here presented can be interpreted as different modalities of the Un-saying (Dédire in french) of the Said which consists in putting in evidence the exception of the...
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