Re-Constituting Phenomenology: Continuity in Levinas’s Account of Time and Ethics

摘要

At the heart of Levinas’ work is an account of subjectivity that is premisednon his account of temporality. In this regard, Levinas is like many other phenomenologists.nHowever, in order to understand Levinas in this manner, we must fi rst reconceivenwhat Levinas means by ‘ethics’, so we can see the fundamental continuity in hisnaccounts of subjectivity and temporality. By understanding the continuities, not justnwithin but also between, Levinas’ ethical subject and his futural temporality, we arenable to reconceive of the scope and method of phenomenology, so as to adequatelynassess Levinas’ infl uence in that discipline.