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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Levinas: categories of experience « Previous | |Next »
May 6, 2007

In the collection of essays entitled Entre Nous Levinas has an essay entitled 'Levy-Bruhl and Contemporary Philosophy' In it Levinas says that Levy-Bruhl's analysis do not:

...describe experience as cast in the categories that from Aristotle to Kant--all nuances aside--claimed to condition experience, but in which, with a bit of inconsistency, magic and miracle are also accommodated. Levy-Bruhl questions precisely the supposed necessity of those categories for the possibility of experience..The problem of categories themselves is raised.

This problem is considered in terms of representation.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 12:44 AM |