LEVINAS AND SARTRE ON HUMAN EXISTENCE

Levinas and Sartre on human existence

Levinas and Sartre on human existence

Introduction

I re-read several interviews with Levinas today and philosopher came across odd encounters with Sartre. In 1964, Levinas writes letter to Jean-Paul Sartre congratulate him for the Nobel Prize for literature. The interview in How Righteous is? Levinas writes that Sartre: possibly, was the only one who had the right to speak, and maybe it was the moment when he had to say: go to Nasser in Egypt to offer peace with Israel. Crazy idea! But the philosopher said to him: "you're the only person Nasser will listen (Benda 2009).

After receiving the letter, Sartre, supposedly asked: "who is this Levinas anyway?" Levinas was somewhat offended. In fact, more than twenty years before this episode, Sartre bumped into earlier publications on Husserl Levinasa and said: "all this philosopher wanted to say, but Edmund Husserl said:" even so, shortly after the crime vanishes when Sartre Levinas invited to contribute to the issue of Les Temps Modernes on Palestinian issue. Levinas, philosopher, writes "Politics after!" (As in the nine New Talmudic readings or Talmudic readings) (Emmanuel 1985), which is about meeting Sadat and Menachem Begin and then hope for a peaceful solution.

Sartre and Levinas

Jean_Paul Sartre, who argues that other reminds me of my absolute liability to make a choice? But other problems caused by the rule of the game (I'm always trying to dominate his/her and vice versa). So, in essence, we are with our choice and responsibility.

Emmanuel Levinas said that when you look at the other, you must remember that this person live, watch, and talk to you, requires you to understand his or her as a person, which is different from y. and completely vulnerable. Understanding the needs of others, and my responsibilities for the needs of others comes before the philosopher of my existence, I agree with Sartre anymore. Each person individually, with their own journey of trying to understand and comprehend.

Philosophical analysis

Only means that we have in our lives in accordance with the importance we attach to Sartre it himself. Individual and their struggle for meaning more resonance for me. Because we all see the world from a different perspective and a lot of eyes.

After most known intellectual, Jean-Paul Sartre, until recently, almost disappeared. He was already attacked his "blindness" of the Soviet camps shortly after his death in 1980, and even his humanism Existentialism ridiculed for his optimism, voluntarism and energetic. All careers Sartre was occurring for the so-called Nouveaux philosophers whose mediocre knowledge only passionate antikommunizma to attract attention, and the post-strukturalisty and postmodernists which, with few exceptions, fell into the work already cited technology narcissism deeply at odds with the populism Sartre and his heroic public policy. Huge expansion of Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist, biographer, philosopher, political activist intellectual who seemed to reflect more people than it attracted. The most quoted from French penseurs tres ", he became, in the space of some twenty years at least read and ...