Episode 146: Emmanuel Levinas on Overcoming Solitude
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Death and Otherness - Is Death a Key?
Death is where you see the first possibility of escaping solitude. Death seems to think things that we don't figure out until we've reached near maturity. We recognize the other as resembling us, but exterior to us. The relationship with the other is a relationship with a mystery. And the means of relating to that will turn out to be the erotic,. As he kind of hints in the section that will get fully later on.
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