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To examine Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of language as a response to the post-Holocaust collapse of linguistic structures using a Wittgensteinian critique of private language.

August 20, 2026ReligionsOpen Access

“The Inverted Part of the Soul Is Not Closed from Within”: Ethical Grammar of Proximity in Emmanuel Levinas’s Thought

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To examine Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy of language as a response to the post-Holocaust collapse of linguistic structures using a Wittgensteinian critique of private language.
Conducted a conceptual analysis integrating Levinas's ethical philosophy with Wittgenstein's critique of private language.
Analyzed three specific linguistic focal points: the cry of suffering, immemorial memory, and the proper name.
Demonstrated that rejecting private language serves as the structural foundation for recovering an ethical language of proximity.
Showed that suffering functions as an ethical appeal, memory operates via heteronomous command, and proper names mark irreplaceable singularity.
Identified fecundity and asymmetrical human relations as the grammatical framework establishing responsibility to the Other as the basis of language.

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Philosophical analysis uncovers how Levinas formulates an ethical grammar of proximity following linguistic collapse, indicating responsibility to the Other forms the foundation of language.

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Hodaya Samet Har Shefi (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86b5eb8a91293e6a1cd92c https://doi.org/10.3390/rel17080978

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Philosophical analysis uncovers how Levinas formulates an ethical grammar of proximity following linguistic collapse, indicating responsibility to the Other forms the foundation of language.

“The Inverted Part of the Soul Is Not Closed from Within”: Ethical Grammar of Proximity in Emmanuel Levinas’s Thought

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“The Inverted Part of the Soul Is Not Closed from Within”: Ethical Grammar of Proximity in Emmanuel Levinas’s Thought

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