Abstract
The paper recalls some features of the Husserlian conception of the phenomenon in order to show the ways of the inversion imposed on it by Lévinas, namely in his book Totalité et infini and in his article Intentionnalité et sensation. In these texts, it is still possible to maintain a fundamental description of the phenomenon as experience vécu Erlebnis even with intentionality and sensation as its components.
The rejection of the concept of representation as the very fundament of appearance by Lévinas does not make obsolete any use of those concepts that locate an important dimension of the phenomenality to the interiority of the experience, in the subjectivity. Even if subjectivity in Lévinas seems to admit no homogeneous unity and seems to be constituted by different kinds of relations to an exteriority the phenomena implicated in these relations remain inner sensual experiences