Open AccessAsymmetric subjectivity
Author(s) -
Dragan Prole
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo0804027p
Subject(s) - subjectivity , transcendental number , epistemology , phenomenology (philosophy) , constitution , fundamental ontology , philosophy , id, ego and super ego , ontology , sociology , psychology , social psychology , law , political science
The author inspects the reasons because of which of the Levinas' thematic of being becomes completely irrelevant as a fundamental ontology and phenomenology of constitution. Levinas will legitimize his opinion as phenomenological while trying to affirm the basic phenomenological position that the origin of our cognitions is always based upon the mutual world. The concept of asymmetric subjectivity is the only possibility for answering the philosophical demand that the others do not appear to me via a prearranged coordinate system of selfness. After confronting the Lipps' Theory of 'Verdoppelung' and the Husserl's transcendental ego, the second part explores the difficulties which Levinas' imperative of absolute otherness is faced with. By all means, he preserves the asymmetric structure of subjectivity, but he also faces it with the difficulties of self-induct as subjectivity