Il sentire impersonale

Lévinas e l'immediatezza del senso

Abstract

The author takes into consideration the philosophical perspective of Levinas, who identifies the genesis of the ethical sense in sensibility, understood as passivity. For Levinas, the subject as the «other-in-thesame » feels the proximity of the other as a trauma, which gives rise to the responsibility for others. Consequently Levinas’s thought delineates a peculiar ethics without recognition, grounded on the immediacy of sensibility, which is prior to any communication.