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Universidade Federal De Pernambuco Centro De Filosofia E Ciências Humanas Programa De Pós-graduação Em Filosofia
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Villas, Diogo Aguiar, B. |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | This work addresses the problem of freedom as formulated by Levinas. It advances from the question about the possibility of the relationship between freedom and heteronomy and rests on the thesis that the key to this articulation lies in two concepts: hospitality and substitution. Such a thesis resorts essentially to two texts: Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than being – texts in which we find, respectively, the two aforementioned concepts. This choice determines the division made in three chapters. The first one, dedicated to Totality and Infinity, provides the main argumentative traits outlined by Levinas in the formulation of the concept of freedom invested and accentuates how the strong opposition between interiority and exteriority directly influences the opposition between economic and invested freedom. The concept of hospitality will be responsible for minimizing the impacts of such opposition. The second chapter plays a mediating role. As long as we are dealing with two texts separated by more than a decade, and since there has been a structural review of the argumentation, this chapter provides the necessary link to make clear why this reformulation became inevitable. In essence, there is a tangential thesis supporting the idea that, although the formulation of the levinasian concept of freedom leads to the priority of responsibility, the conceptual architecture that allows the elaboration of Totality and Infinity’s concept of freedom differs radically from Otherwise than being’s. Therefore, we made our way to the third and final chapter, devoted to an analysis of that which became known as one of the most important Levinas’ texts alongside Totality and Infinity: Otherwise than being. Here we explain how the reinterpretation of identity in terms of a radical passivity always permeated by otherness requires the formulation of the concept of finite freedom. There is no longer reference to hospitality. Substitution is the key link between freedom and heteronomy. Finally, we conclude by providing a possible explanation for the levinasian concept of freedom. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://cebelonline.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/digitalo-paradoxo-levinasiano-de-uma-liberdade-heteronc3b4mica.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
