Jenny Boully from The Body: An Essay
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Emmanuel Levinas, The Proximity of the Other, 98
“All encounter begins with a benediction, contained in the word ‘hello’; that ‘hello’ that all cogito, all reflection on oneself already presupposes and that would be a first transcendence. This greeting addressed to the other man is an invocation. I therefore insist on the primacy of the well-intentioned relation toward the other. Even when there may be ill will on the other’s part, the attention, the receiving of the other, like his recognition, mark the priority of good in relation to evil.”
Emmanuel Levinas, from Nine Talmudic Readings
Perhaps justice is founded on the mastery of passion,
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity, 215
Levinas’ Interview with Francois Poirie in Is it Righteous to Be?: Interviews with Emmanuel Lévinas
Love’s Grateful Striving: A Commentary on Kierkegaard’s Works of Love by M. Jamie Ferreira
In love, the lovers do not succeed in coinciding with each other, so to speak. Fashionable sadness! Love, however, is the proximity of the other—where the other remains other. I think that when the other is ‘always other,’ there is the essence of love.
Emmanuel Levinas, from an interview with Francois Poirie, Is It Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emmanuel Levinas (via ecrituria)
Little Bristling Soul 