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...
Keywords: politics, Feminine, gift, alterity, justice, totality, face of the other, exposition, forgiveness
04/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThis paper interrogates the conditions of possibility of the European constitution and asks where we must search for these conditions...
Keywords: European constitution, politics, ideology, democracy, security, communication-production, globalization, identity, alterity, international relationships
04/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter