Emmanuel Levinas

Tor.com: The Philosophy of Self-Destruction in Alex Garland\’s Annihilation

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So far, Annihilation is my second favorite movie of the year (right behind You Were Never Really Here, which you can read about here). And while I\’ve read plenty of excellent articles about how the movie thinks about self-destruction (particularly this piece for Vulture), I haven\’t read too much about the film\’s beauty, outside of …

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Tor.com: The Philosophy of Self-Destruction in Alex Garland\’s Annihilation

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So far, Annihilation is my second favorite movie of the year (right behind You Were Never Really Here, which you can read about here). And while I\’ve read plenty of excellent articles about how the movie thinks about self-destruction (particularly this piece for Vulture), I haven\’t read too much about the film\’s beauty, outside of …

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Interpretation and Interruption: Reading and Identity Formation in Levinas and Nancy

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Below is an excerpt from an article about how Chang-Rae Lee\’s first two novels help us examine the differences between theories of identity construction advanced by philosophers Jean-Luc Nancy and Emmanuel Levinas. This paper seeks to mediate the differences between Levinas and Nancy with a reading of Chang-rae Lee\’s first two novels, 1995\’s Native Speaker …

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Interior Space Invaders: Disruptive Neighbors and the Relational Self in Updike\’s Rabbit Redux

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Contrary to the solipsism emphasized in most discussions of John Updike\’s Rabbit tetralogy, this article examines the tenuous and improper community Harry Angstrom forms when he invites two members of enemy groups to stay in his house. Drawing from Kierkegaard\’s “neighbor-love” and Levinas\’s phenomenological ethics, I argue that the presence of others shatters Harry\’s selfhood, …

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