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The political and the Feminine: Reflections on Levinas' philosophical language

  • Julia Ponzio (b. 1972) teaches Semiotics and Semiotics of text at Bari University 〈juliaponzio@hotmail.com〉. Her research interests include philosophy, semiotics, and music. Her publications include L'oggettività del tempo: La questione dell'oggetività in Husserl e Heidegger (1999); Il presente sospeso: Alterità e appropriazione in Heidegger e Lévinas (2000); Il ritmo della Scrittura (2005); and Reasoning with Emmanuel Levinas (with A. Ponzio and S. Petrilli, 2005).

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Published/Copyright: May 15, 2006
Semiotica
From the journal Volume 2006 Issue 159

Abstract

In this text we pose the problem of the place of the political in Levinas' thought: is it placed at the level of the totality or beyond the totality? To answer this question we will reflect upon the concept of forgiveness because it marks, as I try to show in this text, the border between the totality and its beyond. I'll try to show, in this text, that the link that Levinas establishes between forgiveness and Feminine means that Feminine is the condition of possibility of politics.

Keywords: Politics; Feminine; gift; alterity; justice; totality; face of the other; exposition; forgiveness

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Julia Ponzio

Julia Ponzio (b. 1972) teaches Semiotics and Semiotics of text at Bari University 〈juliaponzio@hotmail.com〉. Her research interests include philosophy, semiotics, and music. Her publications include L'oggettività del tempo: La questione dell'oggetività in Husserl e Heidegger (1999); Il presente sospeso: Alterità e appropriazione in Heidegger e Lévinas (2000); Il ritmo della Scrittura (2005); and Reasoning with Emmanuel Levinas (with A. Ponzio and S. Petrilli, 2005).

Published Online: 2006-05-15
Published in Print: 2006-04-20

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https://doi.org/10.1515/SEM.2006.027
Keywords for this article
Politics; Feminine; gift; alterity; justice; totality; face of the other; exposition; forgiveness

Articles in the same Issue

  1. La sémiotique instante : introduction à la sémiotique politique
  2. Appartenance politique et appropriation identitaire : la question de l'esthétique
  3. Identity and difference in politics among nations: A semiotic approach
  4. National representations: Representation of interests? The law of indigenous rights: An intersection point of view
  5. Symbols and communication of values in the accession to the EU (Hungary)
  6. Europe as a symbol in political image constructions
  7. Pouvoir des images d'avant le pouvoir : de l'éthos dans les portraits des candidats à l'élection présidentielle 2002 en France
  8. The political and the Feminine: Reflections on Levinas' philosophical language
  9. Affirmation du pouvoir et sémiotique du marquage territorial
  10. Les friches urbaines : des évolutions sémiotiques à la prospective urbaine
  11. Le projet urbain et le paradoxe de la concertation : vers une approche sémiotique de l'exemple Beyrouthin
  12. Diplomatie et création de sens
  13. Méthode d'évaluation des signaux politiques dans les presses nationales
  14. Political ideology and the language of the European constitution
  15. Pour une sémiotique du politique : schèmes mythiques du national-populisme
  16. Le développement durable : suite et fin(s) de l'idée de Progrès ?
  17. Guerre économique et identité
  18. Les contours d'une Europe cosmopolite : une sémiotique politique de la globalisation
  19. Les « ostensignes » ou l'espace public impossible
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