Abstract
This paper deals with action and decision making in Levinas' late philosophy. The distinction between action and work (œuvre) is central in it.
Whereas in Otherwise than Being action is considered only in the strong sense as something violent and non-ethical, other Levinas' texts such as Humanism of the Other propose an ethical action, called work. The work is an action which foresees what no eye has never seen: a new world, a world without me, and which anticipates a time without me.
The work has a utopian dimension: when I act in this weak way I renounce to be the contemporary of the fulfillment of my action.