Thank you very much

That was great. Beautifully expressed. I look forward to the next video!

Thanks blood

How did I just recently discover this guy’s philosophy?

I have always identified myself with thinkers such Martin Buber Carl Rogers and I am glad identify with the optical refractions of this gentle philosopher Emmanuellis Levinas.Thanks.

Thank you very much! Prof. Michael Barnes

This is such a great video. I've looked in your timeline where may I find the rest of it please.

Wow! Thank you very much. Can't wait to see the rest at the Timeline website! Extremely well explained, clear leadership of thought. Thank you very much.

Thank you do much... Now I understand

Marvelous. Thank you so much for this timeline project.

Great breakdown of Levinas, very informative with a charming phonetic flow.

Such an excellent timeline, thank you so much.

Portrait photos of Emmanuel Levinas by ©Bracha L. Ettinger, 1991, in the frame of a Conversation project between them

The other is radically "not me" - she is an absolute other. The other and the me do not form a totality. Nevertheless, the other appears only because I appear, and I appear only because the other appears - but this is not reducing the other to the self- same. This fact arises from infinity, not psychology or being. It invites us into the "nearness" - the "welcome", the "sociality". It is not me welcoming - the welcome, the nearness, the sociality are instructed by infinity. Seing the face of the other brings up infinity. His book "Otherwise than being" is the book to read, as it was written to answer Derrida's critique of "Totality and Infinity". We are both free (Sartre) and "hostage" (of love- election).

Dear lecturer, thank you for a very nice talk on Levinas' thought. Please consider not calling it by the somewhat pejorative "Old Testament." Most contemporary scholars call it the Hebrew Bible.

Hilarious subtitles!

Sorry, I can't let people speak which are #dead!

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Confusing and invites suspicion: I suggest you don't bother with this video. It breaks off 1/4 of the way through and sends you to a website which asks for an expensive subscription fee for other materials, but does not list the rest of this lecture among the materials provided. A truly bizarre experience created by what appears to be St John's University, London, England. I say appears, because though there is the name, and accents, there are no direct links to the university on the website you are referred to. Overall this experience has a Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker feel to it. It looks like an attempt to bring extraordinarily informative academic materials to a wider audience, but one you get there, tis more like the Bakker's Heritage Park. A Wonderful 24 minute lecture that disappointingly breaks off mid-sentence with no explanation and sort of tries to sell you a 59 Les Paul in cherry condition- suggesting you go to a website. When you get to the website you will be asked to pay an expensive subscription to hear the rest of the lecture and offers many more lectures. The other materials look excellent, but I could not find the continuation of this Levinas lecture listed anywhere on the website, there is no explanation of why it is not there, nor if the lecture will ever be on the website. I get the feeling that if I pay the subscription, I will be cheated. These look like excellent materials used here, on KZfaq, in an extraordinarily unwise manner that is sure to turn people off.

Discover the Other - why not begin with the Face of the Palestinian.

I find the whole approach behind this course and video extremely rude, annoying and misleading. In the first place, this is not an extract. This is a course that all of a sudden breaks off, basically urging you to go to the website where you can buy it. I feel intellectual blackmailed. So there are no introductions or warnings. You just start listening to a moving story about a philosopher that underlines the importance of the other and all off a sudden it just breaks off into a commercial about some timeline project. A rudeness that I have yet to find in commercial corporations. What I find also really flabbergasting is that this rude approach is deployed by a school of mission which trains christian ministers. From christians I would expact a different approach than this commercial brutality. On top of that, that you dare to abuse Levinas, the philosopher of being careful with the other, is really really unbelievable to me. I am truly appalled!

Why the appeal? Because it tickles ears. The Jewish soul speaks only of his own.