%0 Journal Article
%T Sensibility and Subjectivity: Levinas¡¯ Traumatic Subject Jausmingumas ir subjektyvumas: Levino trauminis subjektas
%A Rashmika Pandya
%J Coactivity : Philosophy, Communication
%D 2010
%I Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
%R 10.3846/12
%X The importance of Levinas¡¯ notions of sensibility and subjectivity are evident in the revision of phenomenological method by current phenomenologists such as Jean-Luc Marion and Michel Henry. The criticisms of key tenants of classical phenomenology, intentionality and reduction, are of a particular note. However, there are problems with Levinas¡¯ characterization of subjectivity as essentially sensible. In ¡°Totality and Infinity¡± and ¡°Otherwise than Being¡±, Levinas criticizes and recasts a traditional notion of subjectivity, particularly the notion of the subject as the first and foremost rational subject. The subject in Levinas¡¯ works is characterized more by its sensibility and affectedness than by its capacity to reason or affect its world. Levinas ties rationality to economy and suggests an alternative notion of reason that leads to his analysis of the ethical relation as the face-to-face encounter. The ¡®origin¡¯ of the social relation is located not in our capacity to know but rather in a sensibility that is diametrically opposed to the reason understood as economy. I argue that the opposition in Levinas¡¯ thought between reason and sensibility is problematic and essentially leads to a self-conflicted subject. In fact, it would seem that violence characterizes the subject¡¯s self-relation and, thus, is also inscribed at the base of the social relation. Rather than overcoming a problematic tendency to dualistic thought in philosophy Levinas merely reverses traditional hierarchies of reason/emotion, subject/object and self/other. Article in English Levino vartojam  jausmingumo ir subjektyvumo s vok  svarba tampa akivaizdi analizuojant  iuolaikini  fenomenolog , toki  kaip Jean-Luc Marion ir Michel Henry, fenomenologinio metodo revizij . Ypa  min tina kertini  klasikin s fenomenologijos tem  ¨C intencionalumo ir redukcijos ¨C kritika. Ta iau problemi kas ir pats Levino pateikiamas subjektyvumo kaip jausmingumo apib¨±dinimas. Totalyb je ir Begalyb je bei Kitaip nei B¨±tis Levinas kritikuoja ir pataiso tradicin  subjektyvumo samprat , pirmiausia subjekto kaip racionalios esyb s pateikim . Anot Levino, subjektui b¨±dingesnis jausminis jautrumas nei geb jimas samprotauti ir paveikti savo pasaul . Levinas susieja racionalum  su i skai iavimu ir pasi¨±lo alternatyvi  m stymo samprat , kuri veda prie jo paties pateiktos etin s santykio kaip susid¨±rimo  veidu   veid ¡° analiz s. Socialini  santyki   kilm ¡° gl¨±di ne m¨±s  sugeb jime pa inti, bet veikiau jausmingume, kuris yra diametraliai prie ingas protui, suprantamam kaip i skai iavimas. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad Levino
%K Levinas
%K Sensibility/Affectivity
%K Comprehension/Reason
%K Subjectivity
%K the Other
%K Violence
%U http://www.cpc.vgtu.lt/index.php/cpc/article/view/12