TY - CHAP
T1 - The decision for the word: Buber, Marcel and Lévinas
AU - Riva, Franco
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - At first sight, the philosophy of dialogue appears to propose an ethics which is shared by all the thinkers of this tradition, with certain words being decisive for precisely understanding the exact ground in which this ethics is developed. In a certain sense this is true: there is no doubt that there exists a group of common words which are in shared use by the di¬verse exponents of the philosophy of dialogue –I, thou, dialogue, rap¬port, relation, responsibility, the other, ethics.
However, upon looking more closely two things immediately become obvious. First of all, each of the philosophers of dialogue emphasizes a particular word amongst those he shares with the others. In the begin¬ning, at least, Martin Buber highlighted “relation” as both the primary word and as providing a reciprocal rapport between “I” and “Thou”. Gabriel Marcel, conversely, brings mystery, the body and the other to the forefront. Lévinas emphasizes how responsibility for the other is recog¬nized. None of these words are rejected or placed on a secondary level, even though, for each individual exponent of the philosophy of dialogue, their particular privileged word gradually develops into a kind of quasi-religious icon which is able, just like a sacred image, to draw the gaze and inspire reflection.
AB - At first sight, the philosophy of dialogue appears to propose an ethics which is shared by all the thinkers of this tradition, with certain words being decisive for precisely understanding the exact ground in which this ethics is developed. In a certain sense this is true: there is no doubt that there exists a group of common words which are in shared use by the di¬verse exponents of the philosophy of dialogue –I, thou, dialogue, rap¬port, relation, responsibility, the other, ethics.
However, upon looking more closely two things immediately become obvious. First of all, each of the philosophers of dialogue emphasizes a particular word amongst those he shares with the others. In the begin¬ning, at least, Martin Buber highlighted “relation” as both the primary word and as providing a reciprocal rapport between “I” and “Thou”. Gabriel Marcel, conversely, brings mystery, the body and the other to the forefront. Lévinas emphasizes how responsibility for the other is recog¬nized. None of these words are rejected or placed on a secondary level, even though, for each individual exponent of the philosophy of dialogue, their particular privileged word gradually develops into a kind of quasi-religious icon which is able, just like a sacred image, to draw the gaze and inspire reflection.
KW - dialogo
KW - dialogue
KW - parola
KW - relation
KW - responsibility
KW - word
KW - dialogo
KW - dialogue
KW - parola
KW - relation
KW - responsibility
KW - word
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/53394
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-487-15105-2
T3 - Reason and Normativity
SP - 221
EP - 253
BT - Reflection on Morality in Contemporary Philosophy. Performing and Ongoing Phenomenology
A2 - Urabayen, Julia
A2 - Sanchez-Migallon, Sergio
ER -