Abstract

BORNAPE, Allan. Memory and Judaism in Emmanuel Lévinas. Enfoques [online]. 2019, vol.31, n.1, pp.69-89. ISSN 1669-2721.

It is a common ground in contemporary philosophical discussions about the work of Emmanuel Levinas to question his approach to such dissimilar traditions as phenomenology on the one hand and interest in the thinking of the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud on the other. This problematic relationship between these two philosophical and Jewish traditions, which in apparent tension in the work of Levinas, can account for (in this case the Jewish), a new and different understanding of memory, and which the work of the Lithuanian philosopher presents us. This study will attempt to reconstruct what may be the only text where Emmanuel Levinas wrote explicitly about memory, a Talmudic commentary entitled Au-delà du souvenir, which is interpreted very well as a detailed synthesis of the place of the memory in his philosophical thinking. In this text, Levinas thinks the richness of memory in its varied dimensions, in a reading that moves between the exegetical commentary and the phenomenological approach, that will lead him to think about themes such as tradition, reading and liturgy; as well as the eschatological dimension of memory and its relation to the Holocaust.

Keywords : Memory; Philosophy; Judaism; Eschatology; Holocaust.

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