Fenomenología y violencia. La condición europea de la filosofía frente al problema de la alteridad

Abstract

This paper pretends to summarize the reflections of Emmanuel Levinas, Jaques Derrida and Hans Rainer Sepp on Husserl´s characterization of the european reason in The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology . Firstly, I present the key elements of the Husserlian consideration of philosophy in Crisis and then I try to outline the violence towards alterity that his position would imply. Secondly, I delineate Levinas´s appraisal of contemporary ontology and his idea of giving preference to ethic as a way of dealing with the violence of thinking. Finally, I revisit Derrida´s critique on Levinas and Sepp´s reflection on phenomenology in order to underline the in-between as the proper place of thinking.