Un-common Sociality: Thinking Sociality with Levinas
2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
The present investigation develops the notion of sociality based on Emmanuel Levinas’s thought, and proposes an understanding of sociality that resists becoming a common foundation: an un-common sociality which interrupts the reciprocal shared common, and thereby, paradoxically, makes it possible. By engaging in the larger debate on community, this work gives voice to Levinas on the question of community without a common ground, a topic and a debate where he has previously been underestimated. In this way, the aim is to reveal new directions opened up by Levinas’s philosophy in order to think an un-common sociality.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2016. , p. 315
Series
Södertörn Philosophical Studies, ISSN 1651-6834 ; 19Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations, ISSN 1652-7399 ; 124
Keywords [en]
Levinas, sociality, community, un-common, Nancy, Blanchot, facing, inside-out
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Critical and Cultural Theory; Baltic and East European studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30907ISBN: 978-91-87843-60-0 (print)ISBN: 978-91-87843-61-7 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-30907DiVA, id: diva2:974074
Public defence
2016-10-21, MB503, Alfred Nobels allé 7, Huddinge, 13:00 (English)
Opponent
Supervisors
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European StudiesHelge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse 2016-09-302016-09-232023-04-03Bibliographically approved