Volume 4, 2007
Ian Leask
Pages 17-22
First Impressions Reconsidered
Some Notes on the Levinasian Critique of Husserl
This article investigates an intriguing ambivalence in Levinas’s reading(s) of Husserl’s phenomenology of internal-time consciousness. The article focuses on the specific treatment of the Husserlian ‘proto-impression’, suggesting that one (under-appreciated) aspect of Levinas’s approach may serve to undermine, or even ‘un-say’, its better known counterpart.