Article: Beyond history in history: historiographic threads in foucault and Levinas.(Emmanuel Levinas and Michel Foucault)

The expression "beyond history in history" paraphrases the title of a lesson presented by Emmanuel Levinas in 1988 before the 29th Colloquium of Jewish Intellectuals and later published in The New Talmudic Readings (1999) as "Beyond the State in the State." The aporetic combination of the "beyond" and the "in," of the unlimited and the limited, of interiority and exteriority, of immanence and transcendence, indicates the complexity of Levinas's ethico-political program that aspires to preserve ethical non-spaces (or "nullsites" (1)) in the interstices of politics. Equally complex is the Levinasian treatment of another totality--the totality of history. Yet, reading Levinas's ...

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