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dc.contributor.authorRolfsen, Theodor Sandal
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-31T07:49:26Z
dc.date.available2022-08-31T07:49:26Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-21
dc.description.abstractThis article seeks to challenge what may seem to be an obvious assertion: that finitude is original in the sense that it must be presupposed that any possible meaning can only be thought beginning from this finitude. I do this through a rereading of Derrida’s epochal essay “Violence and Metaphysics,” which perhaps is the most decisive interpretation of the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. In the essay, Derrida demonstrates how Levinas is forced to betray his own intentions in his attempt to describe the Other as transcendent. By making use of a newly published lecture series, Derrida held at the same time as writing the essay, I show how Derrida’s reading of Levinas is intimately tied to his interpretation of Heidegger’s critique of the metaphysics of presence, and how both Levinas and Derrida end up in the paradox I call “original finitude.” I then show how new commentary literature on Levinas’ analysis of enjoyment gives us an alternative to Derrida’s notion of original finitude. I do not propose that this alternative overcomes Derrida’s problematic, but rather that it gives another option of how to relate to that which escapes the grasp of philosophy. The key difference will be whether transcendence is conceived as a failure of philosophy or its excess.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRolfsen. Is Finitude Original? A Rereading of "violence and Metaphysics". Open Theology. 2022;8(1):173-190en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2029043
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/opth-2022-0200
dc.identifier.issn2300-6579
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/26493
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDe Gruyteren_US
dc.relation.journalOpen Theology
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleIs Finitude Original? A Rereading of "violence and Metaphysics"en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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