Todd, Sharon
(2002)
On Not Knowing the Other, or Learning from Levinas.
Philosophy of Education Yearbook.
pp. 67-74.
ISSN 8756-6575
Abstract
What has recently been coined the ethical turn in philosophy — and there is
certainly evidence of this turn in educational theory as well — has been noticeably
inflected by an emerging interest in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, who is
described by one literary critic as “offering the gift of ethicity.” This gift is marked
by Levinas’s attention to the category of the Other as a necessary condition for
ethical interaction and his insistence upon an ego-less and non-conscious passivity
in relation to being responsible for that Other. Ethics, in his view, is rendered less
in terms of consciousness and agency, which are the usual hallmarks of moral theory
and education, and more on a “pre-originary” susceptibility and openness to
Otherness.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Not Knowing; Other; Learning; Levinas; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
8538 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Sharon Todd
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| Date Deposited: |
01 Aug 2017 13:53 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Philosophy of Education Yearbook |
| Publisher: |
Philosophy of Education Society |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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