Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics in Post-Humanism
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Posthumanism, Other, Face, being, ethicsAbstract
After the linguistic turn in the twentieth century, the concept of human agency and ethical concerns were displaced by discourse of language. Existentialism was the last philosophy of the period which dealt with individual human agency. Now in the period of posthumanism, the philosophy of Levinas redefined self in relation with the other. It is a critic of individual universalism implied in humanism and existentialism. This paper discusses how the philosophy of Levinas defined the relation between self and other in a unique way, which is different from that of thinkers like Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Lacan. The radical way Levinas redefined the relation between ontology and ethics, has positive relevance in contemporary situation, when the exclusion of the other in social life is a matter of deep concern. The possibility of application of Levinas in literature is also a possibility.
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