Smith, Steven G. As in his discussion of need and nausea, Otherwise than Being argues that lived sensibility often overflows representation. In my opinion the result in the end is just the opposite: if I cannot treat myself as a transcendental ego in the phenomenological attitude, as a centre of experiences and acts, then I cannot regard anybody else in this way either; then I cannot consider other people as centers of their own experiences and acts. Thus, Levinas adds, and I still interrupt the ultimate discourse in which all the discourses are stated, in saying it to one that listens … That is true of the discussion I am elaborating at this very moment. Books published posthumously: Nouvelles lectures talmudiques [ New Talmudic Readings ].
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