Pohladit, nebo podat ruku : Levinas a Merleau-Ponty o tělesném původu řeči

• Authors: Jan Bierhanzl

Title variants

EN

To Caress, or to Shake Hand

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present paper is to exemplify the diachronic structure of Speech through the interpretation of Levinas’ claim according to which the Speech precedes the Spoken. On the basis of comparison between the primordiality of the Speech and Merleau-Ponty’s gestual meaning which precedes the conceptual meaning, we will point out the correspondence – within the frame of the ethical signifiance – between the diachrony of Speech and the origin of language in corporeality. We shall conclude by reflexion of the problem of articulation between Speech as a modality of ethical signifiance and between Levinas’ philosophical discourse itself, which remains a modality of the Spoken despite its reflexion on the Speech.

Keywords

EN

Speech; gestual meaning; conceptual meaning; corporeality; Merleau-Ponty; Levinas

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 59
• Issue: 7, Special No: Fenomenologie tělesnosti
• Pages: 157-166
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Bierhanzl

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic