Face-to-face Encounters
ITALY
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The face is a living presence; it is expression. . . . The face speaks. (Levinas, Totality and Infinity). |
INDIA
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Our relation with the other (autrui) certainly consists in wanting to comprehend him, but this relation overflows comprehension. Not only because knowledge of the other (autrui) requires, outside of all curiosity, also sympathy or love, ways of being distinct from impassible contemplation, but because in our relation with the other (autrui), he does not affect us in terms of a concept. He is a being (étant) and counts as such (Emmanuel Levinas, “Is ontology fundamental?”). |
NEPAL
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To approach the Other is to put into question my freedom, my spontaneity as a living being, my emprise over the things, this freedom of a “moving force”, this impetuosity of the current to which everything is permitted, even murder. The “You shall not commit murder” which delineates the face in which the Other is pro- duced submits my freedom to judgment (Lévinas, Totality and Infinity). |
US
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. . . the face presents itself, and demands justice (Lévinas, Totality and Infinity). |
PORTUGAL
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The face is exposed, vulnerable, as if inviting an act of violence. At the same time, the face is what prohibits us from killing" (Lévinas, Ethics and Infinity). |