Fichte/Levinas. A Missed Encounter around the Otherness

Abstract

As it is known, Levinas proposes a thought of the otherness that, as absolute or infinite, invites the subjectivity to a relationship without common measure, constitutive of the freedom of the subjectivity. Now, not only in Levinas but also in Fichte it is possible to find this figure of otherness. In fact, he develops it concretely in his 1794 Doctrine of Science, regarding his theory of recognition. The purpose of this article then is to return to these two thinkers to outline both the points of approach and the differences that measure the distance and the fracture between them.