College of Human Sciences
The lingering and what remains to be said
Dr Garth Mason, who teaches in the Unisa Department of Religious Studies and Arabic, recently spoke on Emmanuel Levinas’s other-directed ethics, which is founded on a decentred self and the unclosed circle of the other. The thought-provoking lecture considered that in seeking the other, Levinas insists there is always more explanation required. Such an ethic is rooted in transcendence and the immediacy of the other’s face.
Levinas is read in the context of Buber and a critique of Kant’s autonomous subject and his legacy is seen in luminary thinkers, such as Judith Butler. But there is still much that remains to be said about him and what he can contribute to contemporary ethics.
* By Rivonia Naidu-Hoffmeester, Communications and Marketing Specialist, College of Human Sciences
Publish date: 2020-08-27 00:00:00.0
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