num_pages: 150
description: Time and the Other contains a series of essays presented as a series of lectures in 1946—47 at the College Philosophique in Paris, along with additional essays dealing with the themes of time, sociality and ethics. This work represents, along with Existence and Existents (1947), the first formulation of Emmanuel Levinas's own philosophy, later more fully developed in Totality and Infinity (1961) and Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence (1974).Beginning with an analysis of existence without existents, Time and the Other then describes the origination of the subject, and moves through its encounter with another person. It is in this encounter rather than in the world that Levinas discovers time in its full sense. The progression of Levinas's phenomenology moves towards alterity, not toward totality. Levinas connects the alterity of the Other with temporality; the Other who is encountered is not contemporary, not met "at the same time." The time of the Other disrupts or interrupts the self's own temporality.This is essential reading for all those interested in Levinas, and an excellent starting point for understanding the nature of Levinas's philosophical project and thought.
language: English
title: Time and the Other
titlecomplete: Time and the Other
genres: 20th Century, Metaphysics, Science, Theory, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, France, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 384
publisher: Duquesne University Press