This philosopher outlined a sort of "dark anonymous being" called the "il y a," or the "there is," which is perceived in the absence of light; he thus characterized consciousness as a "hypostasis."
This philosopher outlined a sort of "dark anonymous being" called the "il y a," or the "there is," which is perceived in the absence of light; he thus characterized consciousness as a "hypostasis." This author included an essay on his longtime friend Maurice Blanchot in Proper Names, and his collection Of God Who Comes to Mind is an example of his Talmudic scholarship. He contrasted how the subject can experience a jouissance of the impersonal world with how that same subject must respond to the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill" when faced with the "widow, orphan, or stranger."  A survivor of the Holocaust, this author of Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence claimed that Heidegger's unforgiveable Nazism arose from Western philosophy's reliance on ontology and its tendency to incorporate everything into "the Same." He argues that ethics should be based on acknowledgment of "the face of the Other." FTP, name this Lithuanian thinker who wrote Totality and Infinity.
This philosopher outlined a sort of "dark anonymous being" called the "il y a," or the "there is," which is perceived in the absence of light; he thus characterized consciousness as a "hypostasis."
Emmanuel Levinas