Session 9
- Topics: Discourse as “Rupture and Commencement” / The “Interpersonal” as “Asymmetrical”
- Reading: Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, 194-204; 215-219.
- In what ways is discourse both a “rupture and commencement” by conditioning thought? Discuss why the “essence of discourse” is ethical. What is its relationship to “reason?”
- Why does Levinas argue that “interpersonal” takes place in a space that is “asymmetrical?”