Wdzięczność w przestrzeni znaków. Dialog z dialogiem Bubera i Levinasa

Abstract

I stand for a philosophical writing engaged in an ethical relation with discussed authors. The relation despite its obvious immeasurable value is based on a concrete context of the encounter, performed by a signifier. Gratitude is the phenomenon, which describes properly the ethical relation, for it at once opens the absolute dimension of an unique other and expresses some onthical content of gestures, gifts and signs, which Myself receives from the others. The article criticises Buber’s theory, due to its ignorance of difference, corporeality, linguistic sign, passivity, etc. For that reason I use Derridian concepts, that enhance (but consequently deconstruct) Levinasian principles.

Keywords

• gratitude
• responsibility
• dialogue
• affirmation
• Buber
• Levinas