Ricerc@Sapienza

Dans ce texte je me propose de sonder la limite ou l’illimité des frontières des Soixante-dix nations, nations au-delà de nations peut-être, afin de comprendre si cette locution utilisée par Levinas et par les docteurs talmudiques peut s’étendre, peut s’entendre au-delà de l'Europe.

The mutual influence between Derrida and Levinas is well known. Derrida devoted numerous texts to Levinas and, although the references to Derrida in Levinas are scarcer, we are far from ignoring the profound influence of “Violence and Metaphysics” in the transition from Totality and Infinity to Otherwise than Being.

By drawing on Jacques Derrida’s analysis of the animal question in his last seminars entitled The Beast and the Sovereign, I approach the possibilities of fraternity not only among beasts, between “the wolf and the lamb,” but also between them and humans, in terms of their differences. More precisely, while illustrating certain limits of his analysis, I look at his decisive inquiry concerning “the animal,” which goes hand in hand with political inquiry.

In questo testo si vuole pensare, o provare a pensare, una «filosofia ebraica» a partire dall’idea di traduzione o, se si preferisce, a partire dall’idea di un «pensiero della traduzione da inventare», secondo una formulazione di Jacques Derrida in Addio. A Emmanuel Levinas.