TY - JOUR
T1 - Emmanuel Levinas on Surrender and Self-Sacrifice
T2 - A Response to Simone Drichel
AU - Bernasconi, Robert
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/1/2
Y1 - 2019/1/2
N2 - Simone Drichel’s “Emmanuel Levinas and the ‘Specter of Masochism’” raises important questions not only about whether Levinas’s ethics is a masochism but also about the sense in which we may speak of a Levinasian ethics at all and of the primacy Levinas attributes to it. Drichel’s development of his account of “surrender” and “vulnerability” represent an illuminating entry point into Levinas’s thought. However, questions can be raised as to whether she is right to insist on a dichotomy inherited from traditional ethics between the for itself and the for others, between self-preservation and self-sacrifice.
AB - Simone Drichel’s “Emmanuel Levinas and the ‘Specter of Masochism’” raises important questions not only about whether Levinas’s ethics is a masochism but also about the sense in which we may speak of a Levinasian ethics at all and of the primacy Levinas attributes to it. Drichel’s development of his account of “surrender” and “vulnerability” represent an illuminating entry point into Levinas’s thought. However, questions can be raised as to whether she is right to insist on a dichotomy inherited from traditional ethics between the for itself and the for others, between self-preservation and self-sacrifice.
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U2 - 10.1080/24720038.2019.1550298
DO - 10.1080/24720038.2019.1550298
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064193720
SN - 2472-0038
VL - 14
SP - 29
EP - 35
JO - Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
JF - Psychoanalysis, Self and Context
IS - 1
ER -