Levinas

thinking lEast about death—contra Heidegger

Richard Cohen

pp. 21-39

in: Eugene Long (ed), Self and other, Berlin, Springer, 2007

Abstract

Detailed exposition of the nine layers of signification of human mortality according to Emmanuel Levinas's phenomenological and ethical account of the meaning and role of death for the embodied human subject and its relations to other persons. Critical contrast to Martin Heidegger's alternative and hitherto more influential phenomenological-ontological conception, elaborated in Being and Time (1927), of mortality as Dasein's anxious and revelatory being-toward-death.

Cited authors

Heidegger Martin

Levinas Emmanuel