Abstract

The paper “Ethical inquiry as doing justice: Levinas’ perspective in contemporary philosophy” examines the becoming of ethical inquiry within the structure of philosophical language developed in forms of the said and the saying. The notion of justice plays a central role in-questioning a philosophical gesture of the author in writing text. At stake Levinas’ view of justification thought as an event of “at this moment” that goes beyond differentiation of the said and the saying but at the same time it is originated and provoked by the saying. The paper also focuses on a problematic relation between a vision as an ethical processing of the subjectivity as it is presented in Totality and Infinity and an ambiguity of language described in Otherwise than Being. Such themes as text-for, one-for-the-other, disruption and displacement are taken into consideration to explain the necessity of the event of justice in philosophical language.