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Hegel and Levinas: On Truth and the Question of Interruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2018

Rozemund Uljée
Rozemund Uljée*
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Leiden University, Netherlandsr.uljee@phil.leidenuniv.nl/rozemund@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper traces the relationship between Hegel and Levinas regarding their understanding of difference in relation to truth and history. It is the aim of this paper to show that Levinas is not a thinker in opposition to Hegel, since opposition would only confirm what it seeks to oppose. Instead, I argue that Levinas interrupts Hegel’s thought in such a manner that it is opened to a supplement of ethical meaning. This ethical meaning is irreducible to truth and history as Hegel understands them, yet it invokes them and makes them possible.

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Hegel Bulletin , Volume 39 , Special Issue 2: Hegel and Twentieth-Century French Philosophy , October 2018 , pp. 221 - 235
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© The Hegel Society of Great Britain 2018 

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