In Experience and the Absolute (2004) and other works, Jean-Yves Lacoste develops a phenomenology of a way of life he calls “liturgy,” in which one refuses one's being-in-the-world in favor of a more basic form of existence he calls “being-before-God.” In this essay I argue that if there is indeed such a thing as being-before-God, Lacoste has not sufficiently considered the possibility that it is characterized in part by a disturbance of one's being-in-the-world similar to, or perhaps even identical with, the disruptive encounter with the human other that constitutes the self as responsible according to Levinas's unique notion of ethics. Lacoste's dismissal of Levinas, evidently based on a misunderstanding of what Levinas means by the word “ethics,” leads him to overlook the potential relevance of Levinas's ideas to his phenomenological project at a number of significant points in his work.

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经验和绝对的他者

在《经验与绝对》(2004) 和其他作品中，让-伊夫·拉科斯特 (Jean-Yves Lacoste) 发展了一种他称之为“礼仪”的生活方式的现象学，在这种生活方式中，人们拒绝自己在世，而支持一种更基本的生活方式。他称之为“存在于上帝之前”的存在。在这篇文章中，我认为，如果确实存在“先于上帝”这样的事情，拉科斯特没有充分考虑其部分特征在于对一个人在世界中的存在的干扰类似于，或者也许甚至与根据列维纳斯独特的伦理观念构成自我负责的人类他人的破坏性遭遇相同。拉科斯特对列维纳斯的解雇，显然是基于对列维纳斯“伦理”一词的含义的误解，导致他忽视了列维纳斯的潜在相关性。