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60The listening eye: Nietzsche and LevinasResearch in Phenomenology 31 (1): 188-202. 2001.Nietzsche's recognition of existence as an ever-shifting play of surface appearances presages his "revaluation of all values," his response to those who would stabilize becoming by metaphysically reifying it as being. Nietzsche arguably provides Levinas with his deepest ethical challenge. Consequently, Levinas himself undertakes a similar revaluation of the ground of traditional values and of the subject. Both put forth heterodox notions of subjectivity insofar as the subject is constituted by a…Read more
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18Review of Santiago zabala (ed.), Weakening Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Gianni Vattimo (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (8). 2007.
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10Levinas and Platonic paideiaIn Claire Elise Katz & Lara Trout (eds.), Emmanuel Levinas, Routledge. pp. 2--10. 2005.
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23Reversibility and Irreversibility: Paradox, Language and Intersubjectivity in Merleau-Ponty and LévinasSymposium 1 (1): 65-79. 1997.The philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty serves both as a ground and a site of departure for Levinas’ thinking. This essay takes up their relationship, with particular regard to the question of whether Merleau-Ponty’s later shift from phenomenology to ontology brings him under Levinas’ critique of ontology as a totalizing philosophy of power that ultimately either denies or negates the radical alterity of the other. Both thinkers are engaged in reconceiving the intersubjective relation, and focus…Read more
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