The Research Of Subjectivity Of Levinas

Levinas opposes the pursuit of the totality and identity of the traditional philosophy .This is the starting point of his philosophy.With the characteristic of volient of the pursuit of totality and identity, there are lots of defects and problems in the total and identical subjectivity. The status of the other is increasingly obvious in the critical processing of previous philosophy of Levinas. Finaly it solved the problem of buliding ethical subject for the other.The subject was born from the anonymous existence and its overall mission is to get rid of totality ,break the closed nature of self towards the other, those close to the other. The desire and the language are two necessary channels to achieve this mission .The object of desire is invisible, the face of others make it concrete. Face is essentially a conversation, it requires a response, which makes the subject into an ethical relationship. However, his priority makes my right paralyzed. Face propose to me unconditional moral imperative,I passively bear and responsible for other. The ethical subject is responsible for other with strong passivity .In comparing horizon of looking Levinas subject, will find Kant claims legislated for self,emphasized self-discipline,but Levinas emphasizes the priority of the other, emphasize the subject's heteronomy . The relationship of the two views is distinctive but also intricate . Marxism has a revolutionary view of the subjectivity , and Levinas and Marx have a certain degree of affinity in the concept of views on the subject. Sartre's ethical theory has a significant chang in his later years, it tended to aggre with Levinas.