Emmanuel Levinas & Human-Science Psychology

Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University)

Please join the Duquesne Psychology Department for presentations and conversation between professors Robert Bernasconi and Leswin Laubscher on the topics of Levinas, race, phenomenology, and ethics. 

This event will mark the release of the new issue of the departmental journal for Duquesne Psychology, Middle Voices, which takes as its theme the intersection of Levinasian thought and Human-Science Psychology.  

Date/Time: February 18th 5-7pm EST. This event is both in-person and online via zoom.

Please email [email protected] for a zoom link.  

Middle Voices website: https://dsc.duq.edu/middle_voices/

Below is an abstract of Dr. Bernasconi's talk:

"Levinas and the Subject at the Service of the System"

There is not a Levinasian politics any more than there is a Levinasian ethics, but, because Levinas's philosophy was formulated as a response to totalitarianism, it can help us to negotiate our often overwhelming sense of political impotence. Juxtaposing Levinas's account of the subject at the service of the system with his account of the relation of the self to the me helps us to understand the ways in which we can resist, refuse, and escape the system.