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Lévinas: World and its Absurdity

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2020

Abstract

Aim of this poster to explain Levinas'own conception of the world and precisely our being in the world in his proper essence: in its incessant ambiguity between its being nonsensical or meaningfull. Following Levinas'argumentation, this poster highlight the source of Levinas' claim that our being in the world is originally nonsensical and absurd - it means that the nonsense of being in the world is not a secondary phenomenon, certain failure in basically meaningfull existence (as H.Maldiney claims, for example).The poster demonstrates how is Levinas' thesis embedded in his basic philosophical assomptions - mainly in Levinas'own reinterpretation of the key notitons of traditional phenomenology: appearing, consciousness and being.