Hodaya Samet Har Shefi

“The Inverted Part of the Soul Is Not Closed from Within”: Ethical Grammar of Proximity in Emmanuel Levinas’s Thought

This article proposes that Levinas’s philosophy of language constitutes a response to the collapse of linguistic structures in the wake of the Holocaust. Instead of attempting to repair or restore a pre-rupture metaphysics, Levinas establishes a new ethical grammar of openness rather than totality. Through a novel inte...