![]() Levinas presents an innovative interpretation of time, which can be considered as an attempt to overcome the dissatisfaction with the egological interpretations offered by Bergson and Heidegger. ![]() Examining Levinas’s views against the background of two of his most influential predecessors, Henri Bergson and Martin Heidegger, leads to conclusions not only concerning the nature of Levinas’s understanding of time, evolutionary rather than contradictory, but also concerning Levinas's unique views concerning the relation between time and ethics. The thesis explored and defended in the dissertation is that even though we find in different periods of Levinas’s writings apparently inconsistent views of time, a coherent and consistent structure of time can be extracted from his thought. A discussion of Levinas’s interpretation of time is needed since he does not provide a systematic theory of the subject, and his views are scattered throughout his works. Focusing on the writings of Emmanuel Levinas, the dissertation examines Levinas’s understanding of time as inter-subjective.
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