| TEXT PREPARATION 2
Assignment due in class on November 8 from some students *Since part of the value of the text preparation assignment is that it will prepare you to be an active participant in tutorial and in class, it may only be submitted in class on the day it is due. If you have to miss that day's class, please contact me to make alternate arrangements. Please read the selections by Emmanuel Levinas that have been assigned (for Oct. 25, Nov. 3, and Nov. 8-10) and address either two or three of the questions below in well-written paragraphs (spanning approximately 3 pages). Since this is your first reading of these text, and since we have not yet discussed them in class, you are not being asked to supply definitive answers but preliminary, thoughtful responses based on close attention to the text. Your answers may also include 1-2 important questions raised by your reading for further discussion. |
Note: The questions below refer
primarily to Ethics and Infinity
(EI), but of course you should feel free to refer to "Philosophy and
the Idea of the Infinite" (PII) if you think that would be helpful.
1. Try to explain what Levinas means by the following "features" of the "face": "straightaway ethical"; "destitute"; "signification without context"; "what one cannot kill"
2. What are some
ways that the relation to the face is described by Levinas in terms of
language?
3. How does Levinas distinguish
"justice" from "ethics"?
As you did for the Text Summary assignment, in preparing this assignment please use in-text parenthetical page references.
Your assignment should be printed double-spaced and with one-inch margins, using a 10-12-point font. Please number and staple the pages you hand in.
Please keep a copy of your assignment to refer to in our class discussion.
posted November 4, 2011