Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Ethics of Alterity in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

بوربيعة سمية; البار عبد الحفيظ

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Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Ethics of Alterity in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

Authors:

بوربيعة سمية | البار عبد الحفيظ

Publisher:

centre El Hikma

Journal:

مجلة الحكمة للدراسات الفلسفية Vol.14 Issue 1, pp.1008-1021

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2026

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001484985

pISSN:

2602-5264

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Abstract:

 This article offers a rigorous philosophical examination of Emmanuel Levinas’s project, which reshaped Western thought by shifting its center from ontology to ethics and from the question of being to that of responsibility. Beginning with the existential and intellectual crisis produced by modernity, the study shows how Levinas redefined the human as a moral being grounded not in knowledge or freedom but in openness to Alterity—the Other who grants meaning to existence.
 For "Levinas", responsibility is not a voluntary act but an urgent call preceding every choice, embodied in the notions of the face, hospitality, and justice as renewed structures of human life. Although his project encounters tensions between the ethical infinite and political limits, it remains a radical effort to rescue humanity from modern alienation and to restore philosophy as a responsible human endeavor in a world where meaning continues to erode, for contemporary philosophical and ethical reflection today.

Article Details

Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Ethics of Alterity in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

Authors:

بوربيعة سمية | البار عبد الحفيظ

Publisher:

centre El Hikma

Journal:

مجلة الحكمة للدراسات الفلسفية Vol.14 Issue 1, pp.1008-1021

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2026

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001484985

pISSN:

2602-5264

Ethics

Alterity

Responsibility

Face

Cosmic

Issues

Article Details

Cosmopolitan Citizenship and the Ethics of Alterity in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas

Authors: بوربيعة سمية | البار عبد الحفيظ

Publisher: centre El Hikma

Journal: مجلة الحكمة للدراسات الفلسفية Vol.14 Issue 1, pp.1008-1021

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2026

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001484985

pISSN: 2602-5264

Ethics

Alterity

Responsibility

Face

Cosmic

Issues

Authors:

بوربيعة سمية | البار عبد الحفيظ

Publisher:

centre El Hikma

Journal:

مجلة الحكمة للدراسات الفلسفية Vol.14 Issue 1, pp.1008-1021

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2026

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001484985

pISSN:

2602-5264