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Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence, published in 1974, produced nothing less than a profound in contemporary philosophical thought. Pursuing the breakthrough made in the work of 1961, Totality and Infinity, but by interrupting its phenomenological movement, Levinas deploys and describes an ethical subjectivity already awoken to the responsibility for the Other, a vulnerable subjectivity, a subjectivity “more passive than all passivity”, persecuted, haunted and elected to the point of substitution for the Other.

From which “place”, and towards which heading and ethico-political orientation, are we to think this “substitution” and this “expiation” at the heart of the infinitely responsible subjectivity for the Other and for the death of the Other? Which are the risks and the chances of this hyperbolical ethics, engaged by a responsibility without conditions for the Other? Can it furnish the space – and if so, how to determine such a space – for a political or a sociality, a manner of rethinking, or even, reconfigure our democratic institutions?  

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