Language and dialogue: reflections from Jewish Philosophy

EMMANUEL TAUB

Zhuhai

Congreso; China and Latin America: New approaches and interactions for a growing cooperation; 2018

School of International Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China

Writing from Jewish Philosophy is the search to transform Jewish sources into the basis of philosophical reflection. The biblical texts, as well as their exegetes, become a living source to think about the questions of the world, man and God. The main subject of this paper is to reflect about the relation between man, Creation and dialogue: is the Creation a kind of violence before the passivity of the uncreated world? Is the loneliness the condition of man's existence? What constitutes the ?other? in Jewish philosophy? I will try to answer these questions through two passages, one by Emmanuel Levinas and another by Edmond Jabès.