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Julia Ponzio

The political and the Feminine: Reflections on Levinas' philosophical language

Keywords: politics, Feminine, gift, alterity, justice, totality, face of the other, exposition, forgiveness

In this text we pose the problem of the place of the political in Levinas' thought: is it placed at the level of the totality or beyond the totality? To answer this question we will reflect upon the concept of forgiveness because it marks, as I try to show in this text, the border between the totality and its beyond. I'll try to show, in this text, that the link that Levinas establishes between forgiveness and Feminine means that Feminine is the condition of possibility of politics.

Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0037-1998
Volume: 2006, 04/2006
Pages: 179 - 194

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