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I'm taking a module concering Phenomenology & Existentialism, however, I've learnt that the term will be devoted to an in-depth study of Emmanuel Levinas' Totality and Infinity.
Should I consider my options and choose another module? I had hoped that it would be more concerned about Kierkegaard/Heidegger/Sarte, not an entire term dedicated to Levinas.

>> No.18988003

>>18987963
Stupid Jew who deserves a punch to "the face".

>> No.18988008

>>18988003
Excellent thank you, I'll choose something else to study.

>> No.18988029

>>18988003
Rude.

>> No.18988053

>>18987963
I like Levinas, but if you're not familiar with Heidegger or phenomenology, it will probably be hell.
>>18988003
kek

>> No.18988098

Levinas is awful. You are infinitely responsible to the Other, the Other is infinitely distant from you, don’t totalize the Other, Judaism is the supreme form of life, blah blah blah. There, that’s it. Choose another module.

>> No.18988327
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>>18988098

>> No.18988457

>>18988327
t. moishe copelstein

>> No.18989899

>>18987963
>Emmanuel Levinas
literally who?

>> No.18990026

If the module were dedicated to Blanchot, that would be based. Levians...meh.

>> No.18990649

>>18987963
He idolize The Other too many times

>> No.18991763

>>18987963
His On Escape is quite good

>> No.18992178

>>18989899
Read a book sometimes.

>> No.18992294

He is a great thinker, but if you get the main gist of his ideas, you will not find anything new anymore, because for him, everything goes back to the relationship with the Other. It gets redundant and predictable, he touches a problem in T&I and you instantly expect him to relate it to the Other. Kind of paradoxical, since he is furiously against totalization, but his own philosophy has the same schema for every problem. Heidegger is more rewarding in this regard, Sartre too. Havent read Kierkegaard, cant comment on him. Personally, I suggest picking someone else, Levinas stayed in a periphery of french philosophy for a reason.