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    Levinas's account of the bodily self radicalizes Husserl'... — Carmelics
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    Levinas's account of the bodily self radicalizes Husserl's pre-reflective ego by emphasizing discontinuity rather than lawful continuity in time-consciousness.

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    • 1.Husserl grounded the ego in an ongoing, lawful flow of lived experience.
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    • 2.Levinas instead focuses on the discontinuity of time-consciousness.
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    • 3.Levinas's phenomenological reduction locates the birth of meaning in a bodily self that carries what it cannot identify as properly its own.
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    • 1.Husserl's time-consciousness already accommodates discontinuity through the structure of retention, where the just-past is held non-identically.
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    • 2.The 'living present' in Husserl is not a seamless continuum but a differential field, as Derrida showed in 'Speech and Phenomena' (1967).
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    • 3.If Husserlian temporality already contains internal difference, Levinas's discontinuity is a radicalization of degree, not a structural break from Husserl.
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    • 1.Merleau-Ponty's embodied subject in 'Phenomenology of Perception' already locates pre-reflective selfhood in a body-schema that exceeds conscious appropriation.
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    • 2.The claim that Levinas uniquely emphasizes a bodily self carrying what it cannot identify as its own ignores Merleau-Ponty's anonymous corporeal existence.
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    • 3.Attributing the radicalization of Husserl's pre-reflective ego specifically to Levinas conflates a broader post-Husserlian phenomenological movement with one thinker's contribution.
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    Two additional innovations in Otherwise than Being include: (1) the proposed phenomenological reduction to the birth of meaning in a bodily self that carries what it cannot identify as properly itself (the “other”, affectively). This appears to be a radicalization of Husserl’s discussion of the pre-reflective ego in Ideas II (§58, “Supplement 12” §§2–3). Whereas Husserl emphasized the basis of the ego in its ongoing flow of lived experience, which he said was “lawful”, Levinas focuses on the dis
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