A categoria da alteridade: uma análise da obra totalidade e infinito, de Emmanuel Levinas

摘要

The present text has for objective to make an analysis of the workmanship Totality and the Infinite, by Emmanuel Levinas, with emphasis in the category of alterity. The conducting wire of this project is concentrated in the possibility to be able to find the Other in its alterity. As general problem of research, we have two questions: a) Why we cannot objectify the Other? b) Which the possibility to think the Other about its absolute Alterity? The first chapter makes a general introduction to the problem of research by means of an intent analysis in the authors Husserl and Heidegger. Due to phenomenological option assumed the agreement of these authors in the aid to better understand the structure and the way to proceed from the thought of Levinas. The analysis undertaken in this chapter it makes possible one better understanding of our central problem, the category of the alterity. The second chapter deals with the interiority category. Descriptions of slight knowledge as joy, economy, house, ownership, feminine work and had been analyzed in order to demonstrate the relations of I front to the Real, as well as its way of constitution, making possible the construction of separate one and to be opened for the relation with the exteriority. The third chapter deals with the category of the alterity, that is, of the opening to the exteriority that makes possible and bases the levinasian ethics. In it the way is displayed for which if of or if it constructs, in the being, this opening, through the analysis of categories as Infinity, Face and Exteriority. In the conclusion we present a joint between the alterity and the ethical conception proposal for Levinas. The intention of this joint is to demonstrate that, for the author, the Other, while expression of the infinity, cannot be objectified and, in this manner, possible of being thought while an absolute alterity.