Monday, November 01, 2004
In-der-Blog-sein
Spurious in Personal - Impersonal examines the I:
Spurious in Personal - Impersonal examines the I:
Levinas will always maintain that the profundity of Being and Time lies in the discussion of mineness, of Jemeinigkeit, in which the 'I' is assigned to itself. But even as he makes this claim, he sets this discussion in another context. Where the assignation happens in an event which will bear no etymological link to Heidegger's Ereignis. An event of hypostasis when the 'I' gathers itself together.Levinas loses me with his event of hypostasis. My understanding of Aristotle is that hypostasis is the underlying substance, that is static--timeless. ¶ 8:41 AM
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Hypostasis in Levinas is supposed to be that process through which Dasein is gathered together such that it could even project itself into the future. This is a curious thought, but an interesting one, best set out in Existence and Existents and Time and the Other. SPURIOUS
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I'm not as well read on Levinas as I ought to be, but I believe he's fairly influenced by Kabbalism and neoPlatonism. As such, his use of hypostasis probably has much more in common with emmanations ala Plotinus than Aristotle. He term of trace, which Derrida picked up, also comes out of neoPlatonism.
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