I’m a sophomore in high school with a phenomenal history teacher who has a PhD in philosophy and he encouraged me to do my WWII research paper on Levinas! Thank you for this video😄
Thank you so much Mr. Moffat. I was googling this topic and almost got my head exploded from reading and listening to those contents. Your explanation is very clear and easy to understand. Thanks again.
Fun fact, both Al Jolson and Levinas talked about in this video and who became extremely famous in US and France respecitvely, were born in Kaunas, Lithuania. Small world.
Bravo Professor! The 20 thumbs down people are full of s*** this was fantastic. I have taken three philosophy courses at California State University Fresno where the professor is a great philosophy teacher Thomas Higgins. He like you says that Levinas is a hard read but I thank you for helping me understand Emmanuel Levinas. Keep up the good work and I'm subscribing to you. Even though my major is criminology I decided to minor in philosophy. Thank you for this video.
Thank you! Just a little historical inaccuracy: Levinas was not in the resistance during the war. He was a reservist in the French army, as a Russian language translator. He was taken as a prisoner of war by the German army when they won the war against France in 1940. Being a prisoner of war, he was spared the concentration camps. He was kept in a special camp for Jewish prisoners of war - not as 'fancy' as the non-jewish French military prisoners camps but it allowed him to survive. His wife and child survived the war thanks to Catholique nones who hid them. The rest of his family who was still in Lithuania died in concentration camps.
I find Levinas to be a Philosophy beyond and subversive to the concepts of subject-object and intentionality. If the self/ego is autochonous as Levinas argues where does and should this lead us. His Philosophy explores this extremely rich horizon. He really is a very important thinker.
Thank you Kael for the quick sumarry on Levinas. However, my instructor did not have the class read Levinas as Levinas was hard to understand. Instead my instructor had the class read Colin Davis' An Introduction To Levinas. I could not understand Davis until I could understand Levinas thanks to your video. But can you explain further what the h... Davis' trying to say?
This is great, thank you! Is it safe to say that when you read about "otherness" or "othering" in the social sciences, that the concept can be traced back to Levinas' philosophy?
That is a great question, but not one I can answer completely confidently right now. My sense is that the concept of self/other is older than Levinas (structuralists and phenomenologists were using that binary) and the way he writes about it seems to suggest that he is re-conceptualizing the concept of the Other.
@@kaelmoffat2198 Thank you very much for the insight. My former philosophy prof wasn't able to tell me off-hand either. I'm guessing it's one of those on-going conversations that go back quite a way and is hard to trace; and that it has been taken up in several ways since then too (e.g. as has been done in post-colonial theory). It's good to know that the self/other binary was already being discussed before Levinas. I appreciate your reply :)
Hello, I’m really having a hard time answering this question, what does Levinas mean when he says that the face of the other puts our being into question? Hope you could answer this. It would really mean a lot! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Listen to this lecture again, because the Prof explains it. I can try, but I am also new to Levinas. Think of Trump, he just uses people, he is totally selfish. Whatever he encounters an Other, it does not change him or deflect him from what he is doing. This is the opposite of what Levinas is getting at. Watch the animation: "anomalisa" it is a one hour meditation on this exact subject.
The Quranic verse at 05:15 in the video actually says that the "believers" are one brotherhood. It doesn't mention "humanity" as a whole in the verse cited. "The believers are but one brotherhood, so make peace between your brothers. And be mindful of Allah so you may be shown mercy." (Quran surah 49, verse 10)
Thanks for bringing this up. I've seen several translations and I asked one of the brothers at the local mosque about this verse; he said that many Muslims think of this verse as applying to humanity in general while others see this in a more traditional way, meaning "believers" only are a "brotherhood." Not being Muslim, The most that I can say is that I'm aware of this debate in the community. It seems that all three Abrahamic faiths struggle with insider/outsider concerns.
What's the significance of the face in Levinas' metaphor of the face? Why did he not choose the the hands, or the feet or the other parts of the body in his discourse? Why, the face? What is involved in there? What's the matter with the face? Why not our names?
This is an interesting set of questions here. Honestly...I remember reading this...but can't bring it exactly to mind right now. I can offer an explanation, but it is couched more in feminist language than his own...but the face is part of the body and the part through which most people get to know others (more so than the hands and the feet...although we can get to know others through them as well). A name is not the body. It is associated with the body, but it is not the body. Many people can have the same name...even first and last name...but no two people can have the same body (unless you're Steve Martin and Lilly Tomlin...sorry, couldn't resist the little film reference). I don't know how much Levinas knew feminism or felt about it, but I do know feminists who like Levinas a lot and there's definitely some convergences between his work and feminism.
I know this may be a stretch seeing this video is so old but do you remember where you found the sources for this lecture? I'm writing a paper and I really loved the way you explained things here but need to cite the sources in my paper
Wait, how do you go from the Other as a general phenomenological category, in which everybody is the Other, including your mother, to the idea of 'diversity' in which there seems to be simple 'we' that excludes 'others', by 'othering', on the basis of ethnicity etc. Those seem to me to be two different things and I for one don't see Levinas' notion of the Other becoming deployed in the way that you seem to be saying. You end up talking about the Other as a source of conflict, when you start, with Levinas, talking about the Other as a category of relation that is constitutive of the self - always, including the nearest and dearest. In short, around the 8-9th minute, you loose Levinas. It ends up being about 'diversity', based on ontologies of identities - notions that, in my mind, are alien to Levinas...
Diversity and awareness of diversity is not first and foremost about creating a we, but instead, attention towards difference, or "otherness." If there is a "we" or an "us" that is formed through diversity awareness, it is one that recognizes that all sameness is comprised of difference; e.g. imagine a group of those who are "Other" like an African American fraternity or sodality--while there may be a "we" or "us" in a shared identifier, i.e. "African American" those in the group come from various social, educational, and even various cultural backgrounds and degrees of skin tone. At its best, the purpose of diversity is STRATEGIC, not static or fact-based in creating an "us" vs. "them."
Yeah...this is a good question. Levinas is hard enough to read, that I've really only looked at his philosophical work and not really at his theological writings...LOL.
@@dr.rakeshpandey4920 so I'm an idiot. "Conceptual knowledge of the Other" would rely on ontology, thus reducing the Other to the same. Meaning you have conceptual knowledge of the other and not the Other. Im kinda mad because I saw one of my papers published but it didn't have my name on it. Clearly it wasn't you But it was someone.
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I’m a sophomore in high school with a phenomenal history teacher who has a PhD in philosophy and he encouraged me to do my WWII research paper on Levinas! Thank you for this video😄
Thank you so much Mr. Moffat. I was googling this topic and almost got my head exploded from reading and listening to those contents. Your explanation is very clear and easy to understand. Thanks again.
Fun fact, both Al Jolson and Levinas talked about in this video and who became extremely famous in US and France respecitvely, were born in Kaunas, Lithuania. Small world.
Bravo Professor! The 20 thumbs down people are full of s*** this was fantastic. I have taken three philosophy courses at California State University Fresno where the professor is a great philosophy teacher Thomas Higgins. He like you says that Levinas is a hard read but I thank you for helping me understand Emmanuel Levinas. Keep up the good work and I'm subscribing to you. Even though my major is criminology I decided to minor in philosophy. Thank you for this video.
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ive been struggling with levinas but youre an absolute master when it comes to summing him up. thanks a lot.
this was incredibly helpful for teaching Camus and Daoud! Thank you so much
I really appreciate your understanding of Levinas’ concepts. Thanks for sharing
Excellent and clear. Thank you. I've looked for an overview like this for years.
Good...I hope it will be helpful.
Thank you so much! I was really struggling with this in class, but now I finally got the gist and can actually decipher what I wrote down!!
I appreciate this class. Thank you
thank you so much for this clear explanation of Levinas, it really helped me to understand key concepts of my class on diversity!
Thank You so much for this!
This is a really helpful overview. Thank you!
Thank you for this quick but really informative overview!
This was excellent, Kael: thank you very much.
This was so helpful and explained clearly. Thank you Mr M
Thank you! Just a little historical inaccuracy: Levinas was not in the resistance during the war. He was a reservist in the French army, as a Russian language translator. He was taken as a prisoner of war by the German army when they won the war against France in 1940. Being a prisoner of war, he was spared the concentration camps. He was kept in a special camp for Jewish prisoners of war - not as 'fancy' as the non-jewish French military prisoners camps but it allowed him to survive.
His wife and child survived the war thanks to Catholique nones who hid them. The rest of his family who was still in Lithuania died in concentration camps.
Thank you, very good introduction for my analysis of treating otherness in translation.
You helped get through s serious project! thank you, this was very informative!
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good piece for my presentation abt attitudes towards alterity
I find Levinas to be a Philosophy beyond and subversive to the concepts of subject-object and intentionality.
If the self/ego is autochonous as Levinas argues where does and should this lead us.
His Philosophy explores this extremely rich horizon.
He really is a very important thinker.
Very very very helpful thank you so much !!!
thank you so much! you made it really clear!
Great video. Tks!
thank you so much for this for I have to make a persuasive speech about this topic for next week
great video
Well done!
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This is a very informative, concise and clearly-presented video! Thank you very much! :)
Thank you..
I love Levinas
Thank you
Thank you Kael for the quick sumarry on Levinas. However, my instructor did not have the class read Levinas as Levinas was hard to understand. Instead my instructor had the class read Colin Davis' An Introduction To Levinas. I could not understand Davis until I could understand Levinas thanks to your video. But can you explain further what the h... Davis' trying to say?
Thanks. I was struggling to understand this for one of my essays :)
Yey, thank you
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My problem is the 'absolutely' in "absolutely other". I know what he is getting at, but we are able to communicate, so the difference is not absolute.
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Portrait photos of Emmanuel Levinas by Bracha L. Ettinger in the frame of a Conversation between Levinas and Ettinger, 1991
This is great, thank you! Is it safe to say that when you read about "otherness" or "othering" in the social sciences, that the concept can be traced back to Levinas' philosophy?
That is a great question, but not one I can answer completely confidently right now. My sense is that the concept of self/other is older than Levinas (structuralists and phenomenologists were using that binary) and the way he writes about it seems to suggest that he is re-conceptualizing the concept of the Other.
@@kaelmoffat2198 Thank you very much for the insight. My former philosophy prof wasn't able to tell me off-hand either. I'm guessing it's one of those on-going conversations that go back quite a way and is hard to trace; and that it has been taken up in several ways since then too (e.g. as has been done in post-colonial theory). It's good to know that the self/other binary was already being discussed before Levinas. I appreciate your reply :)
Hello, I’m really having a hard time answering this question, what does Levinas mean when he says that the face of the other puts our being into question? Hope you could answer this. It would really mean a lot! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Listen to this lecture again, because the Prof explains it. I can try, but I am also new to Levinas. Think of Trump, he just uses people, he is totally selfish. Whatever he encounters an Other, it does not change him or deflect him from what he is doing. This is the opposite of what Levinas is getting at. Watch the animation: "anomalisa" it is a one hour meditation on this exact subject.
The Quranic verse at 05:15 in the video actually says that the "believers" are one brotherhood. It doesn't mention "humanity" as a whole in the verse cited.
"The believers are but one brotherhood, so make peace between your brothers. And be mindful of Allah so you may be shown mercy." (Quran surah 49, verse 10)
Thanks for bringing this up. I've seen several translations and I asked one of the brothers at the local mosque about this verse; he said that many Muslims think of this verse as applying to humanity in general while others see this in a more traditional way, meaning "believers" only are a "brotherhood." Not being Muslim, The most that I can say is that I'm aware of this debate in the community. It seems that all three Abrahamic faiths struggle with insider/outsider concerns.
Thanks I’m in intro to philosophy and reading levinas is just...awkward I am confused when I read his stuff
Oh yeah! A commentator I read said it was hard to tell who was worse, Kant or Levinas :-)
What's the significance of the face in Levinas' metaphor of the face? Why did he not choose the the hands, or the feet or the other parts of the body in his discourse? Why, the face? What is involved in there? What's the matter with the face? Why not our names?
This is an interesting set of questions here. Honestly...I remember reading this...but can't bring it exactly to mind right now. I can offer an explanation, but it is couched more in feminist language than his own...but the face is part of the body and the part through which most people get to know others (more so than the hands and the feet...although we can get to know others through them as well). A name is not the body. It is associated with the body, but it is not the body. Many people can have the same name...even first and last name...but no two people can have the same body (unless you're Steve Martin and Lilly Tomlin...sorry, couldn't resist the little film reference). I don't know how much Levinas knew feminism or felt about it, but I do know feminists who like Levinas a lot and there's definitely some convergences between his work and feminism.
I know this may be a stretch seeing this video is so old but do you remember where you found the sources for this lecture? I'm writing a paper and I really loved the way you explained things here but need to cite the sources in my paper
Can you shoot me an email at work: kmoffat@stmartin.edu I don't remember all my sources, but I can point you to some.
may I ask what is the correct pronunciation... Levinas or Lavanos?... thanks for the asnwer!
Levi-nas
do more please
...Well damn, maybe I needed to hear this...individualism and "will to [social and creative] power" maybe is not the thing to doggedly pursue.
Your philosophy is ancient bruh
Well done! Mr Moffat I have some questions. Can you provide your email for me?
Wait, how do you go from the Other as a general phenomenological category, in which everybody is the Other, including your mother, to the idea of 'diversity' in which there seems to be simple 'we' that excludes 'others', by 'othering', on the basis of ethnicity etc. Those seem to me to be two different things and I for one don't see Levinas' notion of the Other becoming deployed in the way that you seem to be saying.
You end up talking about the Other as a source of conflict, when you start, with Levinas, talking about the Other as a category of relation that is constitutive of the self - always, including the nearest and dearest.
In short, around the 8-9th minute, you loose Levinas. It ends up being about 'diversity', based on ontologies of identities - notions that, in my mind, are alien to Levinas...
Thank you. I hope the gentleman teacher that made this video took you seriously.
Diversity and awareness of diversity is not first and foremost about creating a we, but instead, attention towards difference, or "otherness." If there is a "we" or an "us" that is formed through diversity awareness, it is one that recognizes that all sameness is comprised of difference; e.g. imagine a group of those who are "Other" like an African American fraternity or sodality--while there may be a "we" or "us" in a shared identifier, i.e. "African American" those in the group come from various social, educational, and even various cultural backgrounds and degrees of skin tone. At its best, the purpose of diversity is STRATEGIC, not static or fact-based in creating an "us" vs. "them."
Indeed, that was a sudden and unexpected turn :/
Oh ya this guy said what I said but way better
Did Levinas’ OTHER also imply that man made God in his image?
Yeah...this is a good question. Levinas is hard enough to read, that I've really only looked at his philosophical work and not really at his theological writings...LOL.
“Western philosophy starts with the Self” - only that notion was established some 2300 years after the beginning of Western philosophy
Virtue Ethics etc are focused on the self in Levinas sense.
I don't recall liking German intellectual ontology...the text......
Better to study Torah in Hebrew than read Levinas...
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not liking this to keep it 420...
Lacks basic conceptual knowledge of the Other. Therfore also lacks any educational value for teaching Levinassian ethics.
Really great
Really great
@@dr.rakeshpandey4920 so I'm an idiot. "Conceptual knowledge of the Other" would rely on ontology, thus reducing the Other to the same. Meaning you have conceptual knowledge of the other and not the Other.
Im kinda mad because I saw one of my papers published but it didn't have my name on it.
Clearly it wasn't you
But it was someone.
this was really helpful! thank you