Abstract

PALACIO, Marta. Levinas' standpoint in the hermeneutic turn: language as ethics. arete [online]. 2013, vol.25, n.1, pp.133-152. ISSN 1016-913X.

This paper develops Emmanuel Levinas' conceptions about language and its place in the linguistic-hermeneutic turn of contemporary philosophy. lt examines the relations with the authors associated to this turn (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur and Derrida) due to the importance given to language and, at the same time, it sets him apart from them for his original ethical transmutation of language. This paper also considers the main philosophical notions by which Levinas treats the topic of language: desire, diachrony, the said and the saying, trace, absence, no-indifference, otherness.

Keywords : Hermeneutic turn; Levinas; language; ethics; otherness.

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