Levinas and multicultural society

I hope some day I will write a dissertation about Levinas and intercultural contact. I don't have time now, but at least I can express my thoughts on this blog. Levinas says that a relation becomes ethical when I meet another person. The image I create of the other can never coincide with the real person. An individual is unique, he can't be reduced to the (supposed) characteristics of his group. So I should have an open mind for the real person and let go of my prejudices anytime.

10/11/2009

Hope for the hopeless

Stitch in your knitted brow

and you don't know how

you're gonna get it out

crushed under heavy chest

trying to catch your breath

but it always beats you by a step, all right now
making the best of it
playing the hand you get
you're not alone in this

there's hope for the hopeless

there's hope

cold in a summer breeze

yeah, you're shivering

on your bended knees

till, when you're heart is sore

and the heavens pour

like a willow bending with the storm, you'll make it

running against the wind

playing the cards you get

something is bound to give

there's hope for the hopeless

there's hope

# posted by Levinas and culture @ 2:29 PM