Kant's Fourth Antinomy and the Odyssey of Levinas's Subject.
This article is focused on a problem of self-identity raised by Emmanuel Levinas. The author starts from assuming that Levinas created a new concept of identity not reducible to anything elaborated in Western thought. Nevertheless, Levinas uses Kant's fourth antinomy as a starting point. Kant, as we...
| Publicado en: | Topos (18150047) Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 22 - 33 |
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European Humanities University
2009
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