Subjectivity and Infinity by Guoping Zhao

Author:Guoping Zhao
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030455903
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2May, Reconsidering Difference, 2.

3May, Reconsidering Difference, 2

4Nancy, “Introduction,” in Who comes after the subject? 4.

5Emmanuel Levinas, Of God Who Comes to Mind, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 55. While I have suggested that Levinas’s conception of subjectivity is still tied down by its point of reference, the constitutive Subject, in conceptualizing the Other, Levinas clearly attempts to reach a realm beyond the confines of any reference to the Subject. Levinas suggests that egology, the “I think,” has compromised the true knowledge of the other in its otherness. Consequently, the other appears to be the opposite of the same or the I, or it becomes an extension of the same. Levinas argues that the other cannot be merely the other of the same and cannot be conceived merely as resistance or reversal of the I, and he warns of the danger of violence in rendering the other the same. He argues that the other must be the absolute Other, the Other that is prior to any geographical, physical, and cognitive opposition to the same. While Levinas has also hinted at such radical Otherness in subjectivity, and hence calls it “Otherwise than being,” a closer read of his conception of subjectivity indicates that it is more about “beyond essence,” as unable to be, as a hostage and responsibility…; all these indicate that he is still working within the realm of the reversal of the constitutive Subject and unable to find a ground radically other enough for the “Otherwise than being.”

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