caa a22 4500 463165411 CHVBK 20180406164759.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11007-006-9037-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11007-006-9037-y Westphal Merold Philosophy Department, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, 10458, Bronx, NY, USA aut The welcome wound: emerging from the il y a otherwise [Elektronische Daten] [Merold Westphal] This essay is an analysis of the inverted intentionality that is arguably the central notion in the phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas. The primal horizon for all human meaning is the brute fact of undifferentiated being, the il y a experienced impersonally as insomnia and weight. The first exit from this world devoid of meaning, subjectivity, and objectivity is that of the psychism or conatus essendi, the self which places itself at the center and makes everything else a means to its own ends. But there is another exit, subsequent developmentally but more fundamental ontologically, and in this sense more truly first. It is the emergence of the responsible self, decentered by the proximity of the other. With help from St. John of the Cross and Jean-Paul Sartre this emergence, in which meaning is "prior to my Sinngebung” and arises in intentional acts directed toward me rather than arising from me, is explicated. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/3(2007-07-01), 211-230 1387-2842 40:3<211 2007 40 11007 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9037-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9037-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Westphal Merold Philosophy Department, Fordham University, 441 East Fordham Road, 10458, Bronx, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/3(2007-07-01), 211-230 1387-2842 40:3<211 2007 40 11007 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer