Alterity and transcendence: the title that Emmanuel Levinas chose for this book, which gathers twelve texts from 1967 to 1989, leads directly to the idea that transcendence is "alive in the relationship with the other man."
Today, transcendence becomes the intimate structure of subjectivity. Put another way: it is subjectivity that we are at the origin of the movement of transcendence.
But, considering transcendence under the angle of subjectivity, "modern philosophy" makes problematic the idea of transcendence. Is there not, in fact, an antinomy in the proposition: "the subject transcends"? Whether we have a real improvement in our hands, and then the subject is driven in his movement of overcoming and in this adventure, ceasing to be himself, losing his identity or substance. Either the subject remains in its transcendence movement, but then we may doubt that there i...read more
