Between Levinas and Heidegger

• Autor: Guibal, Francis
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 1992
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/7419
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/7419
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

Levinas' open admiration for Heidegger's thought doesn't exclude explicit and fundamental elements of differentiation and critique that the A. examines throughout the paper's three parts. In the first part, Levinas' relation to Heidegger is explained as a progressive taking distance that searches the meaning of ontological experience, not by penetrating in it but by abandoning it thanks to the metaphysical irruption of human countenance, and by pretending to subordinate the idea of Being to that of the Good or the Infinite (Jewish?). The second part makes a critica! presentation of Levinas' description of Heidegger's "closure"of Dasein, whose interrogation of being would keep him within his own horizon, and which would prevent him from actually opening himself to the alterity of another man excluding thus all possible ethics and falling into a sort of "barbarousness of being". The third part pretends to show -from the common soil of Husserlian phenomenology- some unerasable differences between both authors, in spite of which, even in their extreme distance, the "shepherd of being" and the "vigilant of the other" may invite us to a renewed thought of man' s responsibility as the deepest kernel of his humanity. The accent in the (ontological) difference or in the (human) alterity has, nevertheless, very different consequences in the ethic and polítical contents of such a demand to responsibility.