La pista de la passivitat en l’obra d’Emmanuel Levinas i de Paul Ricoeur

Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf

doi:10.5565/rev/enrahonar.1511

The path of passivity in Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur

Authors

Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf Universitat de Barcelona

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Abstract

The category of passivity is central to the philosophy of both Emmanuel Levinas and Paul Ricoeur. Such a category is intrinsically linked to another equally crucial one: that of alterity. To understand how close these two authors are to one another, as well as the distance that separates them, it is very revealing to analyze first how each of them understands these two categories; and then, why for Levinas the place of passivity is exclusively singular – the relationship with the other – , in Ricoeur it is threefold: the flesh or one’s own body, the other and consciousness.

Keywords

passivity, alterity, intentionality, representation, phenomenon, face, responsibility

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Author Biography

Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf, Universitat de Barcelona

Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf is professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona, where he teaches contemporary philosophy and directs the Aporia research group, dedicated to the relationship between philosophy and psychiatry (https://www.ub.edu/portal/web/aporia). He has published a dozen books, including: The Intimate Resistance (2015), which won the Ciudad de Barcelona Award and the National Essay Award; The penultimate goodness (2018); and Human, more human. An Anthropology of the Infinite Wound (2021). These last three works are being translated into Italian, Portuguese, English and German.