EROS AND LANGUAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PROBLEM SUBJECTIVITY / INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN LEVINAS

Abstract

This paper is primarily trying to emphasize that love in Levinas’s thinking, both in its early and later stages, superior to other ethical factors, and thus to the speech and language in general. It would not, in fact, only Eros from the early period was a dominant ethical force, but also the responsibility for the Other from second period would be. The rise of the importance of language at this period of time cannot bring into question the privileged position of love. Having this in mind then definitely character becomes questionable, meaning even the ultimate success of the intended linguistic turn in this case. It is the question of the very possibility of speech in any linguistic turn in Levinas’s opinion. To about it might be to say it would be necessary that love is degraded or dislocated, but it shows that this was not the case. On the contrary, it turns out that love is constantly and tirelessly treated as important and basic ethical lever.