[연구논문]레비나스와 그의 하이데거 비판

Humanity has faced a shameful monument inscribed permanently with endless crimes against humanity; from Holocaust in Europe and Japanese massacres against peoples in the East Asia during the World War II through the massive sufferings of peoples of Rwanda, Somalia, Kosovo, and East Timor. The cries and pains of those who suffered from injustice haunt us to call into question our individual and communal ethical responsibility. This shameful monument nullifies human achievements and gives LIS an ethical-.moral lesson that we cannot claim any achievements without ethical-moral concerns for the other. Emmanuel Levinas and his ethical discourse stand in this ethical-.moral awareness. The ethical responsibility, for Levinas, is an infinite, unlimited, uncompromising responsibility. In this paper Leviinas's life and his works are mentioned in comparison with French philosophical development during 20th century. Levinas's critique of Heidegger' s ontology is articulated, which is his starting point to develop his own ethical discourse for the sake of the other. I argue that the death of the moral-ethical subject in the slogan of postmodernism is ethically fallacious and too premature. I propose that recovering the ethical-moral subject be possible with the help of Levinas's ethical reconstruction of the subject for the other.