Phenomenon and Infinity

Abstract

In the present text Richir discusses the possibility of enlarging the Lévinasian meditations on the Ethic towards an even deeper interpretation of the radical phenomena of ipseity and of the phenomena as such. He traverses the path, in Otherwise than Being, from the recurrence of the self to substitution, the ethics of Lévinasian ipseity, the Saying and its radical prophetism. Richir wonders whether this ethical and anarchic prophetism does not enclose a fundamental symbolic tautology, that of the trace of the order in its response and that of the identity of the Infinite with its Idea, and whether it might not go beyond the ethical. This would be possible only in terms of a phenomenological unconscious from the sublime in the Kantian sense. Thus, Richir exposes the whole framework of substitution to ultimately question its own limits and propose a widening towards a phenomenology of the immemorial, of the phenomenological unconscious, of the apeiron, with the help of the sublime.