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.
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