The Intrusion of Being in a Place. A Hermeneutical Analysis of the Significance of Space for Levinas’ Notion of Instant [Spanish]

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  • Ángel Enrique Garrido-Maturano Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Instituto de investigaciones geohistóricas.

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Fenomenología

Abstract

This article attempts a hermeneutical and critical analysis of the notion of instant as a self-assertion of the ego in the early Lévinas and as a diachronic relation to the Other in the later works. First, it elucidates the essential significance of space in the constitution of the instant. Secondly, it explains why the spatiality of phenomena im­plies the relationship with alterity as a condition of any form of instant, including the instant of self-assertion of the ego. Finally, it analyzes the transition from the instant of identification of the ego to the instant that results from the ethical assignation of the Other as a consequence of an inversion of the spatiality of phenomena.

Author Biography

Ángel Enrique Garrido-Maturano, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Instituto de investigaciones geohistóricas.

Prof. Dr. Ángel Enrique Garrido-Maturano, nacido en el año 1964 en Buenos Aires; estudio de filosofía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y en la Universität Freiburg i.Br. bajo la dirección del Prof. Dr. Dr. em. Bernhard Casper; Doctorado: Fundamentos, determinación y testimonio de la relación ética en el pensamiento de E. Levinas, Buenos Aires, 1996; desde 1998 Miembro del Centro de Estudios Filosóficos de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires; desde 2000. Ex becario DAAD y Humboldt. Investigador independiente del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) con lugar de trabajo en el Instituto de Investigaciones Geohistóricas de Resistencia, más de 120 publicaciones entre libros, capítulos de libro y revistas científicas de 15 países.

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2017-06-13

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No. 27 (2017): No. 27 July-december 2017

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