Levinas

 My feelings on Levinas, as of right this moment while I'm still mid-reading -- he is such a good philosopher. I feel he pursued something in philosophy greater than his predecessors, but in a way which the greatness cannot dominate. It's a wholly other way of doing philosophy, other-centric and not architectonic.  To follow his lead isn't to put him as first and foremost, but to put us as first. To be in dialogue with him, even after his passing, and to pursue the original philosophical impulse, ala Plato -- to cure man's/the-city's soul, with the realization that putting knowledge or metaphysics first is a mistake. The ethical is all that answers any of these questions, and to answer these questions requires someone other than yourself.

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