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LEVINAS levinas-conference (BEING (OTHER (The Face of the Other (The…

- - - - CONSCIOUSNESS
        
        Consciousness expresses my need to evade from the all-encompassing bruteness of being
        
        Consciousness is caught up in the world but also a power to withdraw from and annihilate the world.
        
        Consciousness is not an adequate representation but an overflowing
        
        Consciousness is the for-itself which is a possibility, and as a possibility it is what it is not; thus, a nihilation
        
        Consciousness is an empty space that bursts out towards its object--the world. It is a non-being that seeks to become which it is not--a being
        
        EXISTENCE
        
        Existence is marked by both a maintaining of identity and a breaking away from identity--a settling down in the homely world of the same VS a venturing to the other which is not home
        
        We live a life of sincerity and encounter the world as a world of enjoyment--the human is to enjoy gratuitously
        
        "Existence precedes essence"--there is no nature or meaning given to us from the start, thus we exist expressing our pure freedom by making our own nature and meaning
        
        We encounter the world as groundless for which life is absurd and meaningless; the only meaning we make out of our life is by living authentically that acknowledges our pure freedom
        
        ON CERTAIN
        MOODS
        
        The affective moods of weariness, indolence, and fatigue, the locus of which is the flesh, are pre-reflective phenomena that are intrinsically meaningful and whose meaning takes priority
        
        The flesh is where the affective trace of my relation with the infinite Other is preserved
        
        The moods attest to the excessiveness of my sensibility-affectivity which overflows representation--the self carries more than it can contain
        
        Shame, fear, and pride are moods that reveal to me the Other and by which I discover my body-- my for Others with which I am threatened to degradation to an object in the world of the Other
        
        In shame, fear, or pride, I deny my self-making and freedom, and I am dropped into the world of the Other
        e.g. through shame, I am the ashamed, and the other is they-who-make-me-ashamed
      - Phenomenology enables to see the concrete human experience beyond the totalizing views purported by traditional philosophies
      - Phenomenology allows for understanding the human existence
      - Phenomenology serves to describe the transcendent aspect of human existence which cannot be represented
    - - The Other is an absolutely
        foreign, infinite element that is not the opposite of self but is complete otherness
      - The welcoming of the other is the ultimate fact, the core of intersubjective life, and the foundation for all social structures.
        
        The response to the other results into speech and signification
      - The self is shot through from the outset with the experience of the other
      - The other is beyond any representation and subverts any attempts to totalization
      - The other transcends me--it breaks up the unity of my world and cuts through my being-at-home with my self.
      - My responsibility to the Other is a primary, pre-reflective experience that transcends my will
    - - The objectifying look of ‘other’ robs each individual their inherent freedom. It hinders people from using their freedom to shape their own identity. In effect, some settle in the false reality that the other’s look has given them by accepting the character they become in the world of the other
        
        The character I become for others is not I--not my projection of my possibilities; thus to live and accept this character is bad faith and a betrayal of my freedom
      - Being-with-others is a struggle as we view and wish to "dominate" others lest we be objectified into their world, and vice versa
      - The other is a transcendence that must be transcended as part of my self-making or the projection of my possibilities in life
      - The other is a for-itself that is not my for-itself that is encountered as an upsurge in my consciousness--a transcendence that threatens me to degradation to an object
  - - - Does not have a predetermined essence therefore they are forced to shape themselves and are capable of changing along the way.
        
        Become aware of themselves when confronted with the look of the 'other'.
        
        Meaning-giving is a free act that represents the wrapping up of things in one's projects
      - The for-itself strives to be an in-itself--to be both being and knowing which is impossible; hence, "Man is a useless passion"