2023
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Silvia Richter, « Le problème de l’éthique et le visage de l’autre. Martin Buber et Emmanuel Levinas en dialogue », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.4tr112
This article examines the complex relationship between Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas, and focuses on the parallels and differences between both thinkers on different levels: First, with regard to language and its significance in the ethical relationship to the Other (Levinas) or the Thou (Buber). In a second step, their different approach to ethics is discussed: while Levinas characterizes the relationship to the Other as asymmetrical, for Buber the I encounters the Thou as an equal partner. In light of their different ethical conceptions, some of the key notions of Levinas’s and Buber’s thought are discussed and compared – the face of the other, the reciprocity of the relationship, the illeity and, last but not least, their different approach to Judaism.