¿Palimpsesto o fenomenología? Observaciones acerca de la metodología levinasiana

Abstract

The article first levels criticism at the interpretation that contends that Levinas's philosophy is a palimpsest that transcribes Jewish religious experience in the language of logos. Second, it shows how the descriptive ideal and the phenomenological notions of intentionality, sensibility, and subjectivity constitute the starting point and the original philosophical inspiration of Levinas's thought. Finally, it attempts to state precisely the sense in which the distinctive traits of his thought that go beyond phenomenology are reconcilable with the fundamental presupposition of phenomenology itself.