http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/ Levinas -- Discussion & Slow Readings Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:42:39 GMT Mitchell Verter http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/818 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/818 http://www.arch.columbia.edu/event/gsapp-event/iannis-xenakis-interdisciplinary-connections Iannis Xenakis: Interdisciplinary Connections 10.16.09 7:00PM - Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:19:10 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/817 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/817 Dear Members In connection of Levinas's work on the relation between time and the Other, it might be useful to take a look at a general philosophical picture Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:10:28 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/816 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/816 Hello Sheldon I came across Heidegger's reference to Einstein's understanding of the nature of time in his (Heidegger's) July 1924 lecture to the Marburg Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:40:55 GMT Sheldon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/815 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/815 Hi George:   Thanks for the follow-up.  One of my weaknesses in understanding Levinas is his philosophy of time, so I'm having a few "aha!" moments when I Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:44:07 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/814 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/814 Hello Sheldon Feeling that my previous message was rather terse, here are some relevant thoughts: On the subject of discontinuous consciousness, my starting Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:44:19 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/813 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/813 Hello Sheldon My principal thesis is that contrary to what we have always accepted without question, our conscious awareness (when awake) is not continuous. It Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:07:38 GMT Sheldon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/812 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/812 Hi George:   I enjoy your posts, and lost track of our last discussion because I was preparing for my doctoral defense.   I think you are right in suggesting Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:25:16 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/811 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/811 Dear Members I was reading 'Emmanuel Levinas - Basic Philosophical Writings', edited by Peperzak, Critchley, and Bernasconi, and there, in the Introduction to Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:22:15 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/810 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/810 Sheldon, I had another look at your message, and now feel that in outlining the path that led me to Levinas, my reply to your question was not entirely 'to the Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:49:16 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/809 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/809 Sheldon, Feeling that in my previous post I could have added something about the present understanding of the nature of time, here is a short addendum: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:51:28 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/808 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/808 Sheldon, You ask what do I think. First, I must declare that I came to Levinas via studies of time and the temporal aspect of consciousness, and in that sense Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:51:38 GMT Sheldon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/807 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/807 Hi George:   I figured you had Cohen in mind in your last few messages.  I wonder if Cohen is being a little fast and loose here when he says the subject and Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:25:56 GMT gunars.berzins@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/806 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/806 Dear Members Here is a paragraph from the Translator's Introduction to 'Time and the Other' (on page 12) by Richard A Cohen, who had had discussions with Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:41:18 GMT S.Kevin Wojtaszek http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/805 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/805 When I first read Levinas, I kept thinking of Jane Goodall and her chimps, or more specifically how the apes experience each (O)ther. Your present discussion Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:22:08 GMT nornand1 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/804 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/levinas/message/804 Hello Sheldon It is not that subject and Other live in different worlds. Rather, there is a common world, with the consciousnesses of subject and Other