Heidegger and Levinas: Metaphysics, Ontology and the Horizon of the Other

Already in his earlier works Levinas proposes a distinct phenomenological project which takes into consideration the radicality of the other and otherness by questioning intentionality and the validity of intersubjectivity within intentional consciousness. His move “towards Heidegger and against Husserl” was due primarily to Heidegger’s Dasein analysis, understanding of Being and being-with. However, in his major work, Totality and Infinity, Levinas proposes a new perspective on reading intersubjective relations with the Other which strongly contrasts with the Heideggerian concept of intersubjectivity. This paper addresses the question of the Other, intersubjectivity and ethics in the writings of Levinas and Heidegger respectively. It considers Levinas’s critique of intersubjectivity as provoked and developed by Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein, and concentrates on Levinas’s specific understanding of intentionality in his account of metaphysics, metaphysical desire and the Other. It also takes up the question of temporality as a necessary condition for intersubjective relation and explores its implication for the self and the Other in Levinas’s and Heidegger’s respective philosophies. Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, Volume 10, Edition 2, October 2010: 23-3

The JOKK Predicament:Access to Citizenship and Limits to EU Member States' Power: The Case of Estonia

The principal objective of this research is to audit the limits set by international and EU law in the context of EU Member States’ exclusive competence to deal with citizenship/nationality issues, especially how they address the most important problems related to access to and loss of citizenship, statelessness, minority rights and non-discrimination. The adequacy of existing regulations was tested with the example of Estonia, an EU Member State with a diverse population and a persistent mass statelessness problem. The study demonstrates that the rules that exist at the international level are clearly insufficient: the contemporary concepts of citizenship does not on its own imply adequate access to the ‘right to have rights’; international law does not offer a comprehensive solution to the problem of access to citizenship for vulnerable groups in the population, including stateless people; and the principle of proportionality required by EU law in matters of EU citizenship at the national level can only be implemented with great difficulty. As for Estonia, contrary to the official, legalist rhetoric and references to the principle of state continuity, the problem of statelessness is nothing more than the result of political decisions made in the early 1990s. Naturalisation requirements in Estonia adversely affect the huge indigenised Russian-speaking community and even amount to the ethnic or language discrimination of its members

第１章 Maternity, Parenting, and the Loss of the Child : Experience of Pain and Suffering

2019年度 - 2022年度 科学研究費・国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化(B))「子育ての現象学：フィンランド・ネウボラをフィールドに」研究成果報告書課題番号 : 19KK0003研究代表者 : 浜渦 辰二（大阪大学・上智大学）Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Bilateral Programs By Japan Society for the Promotion of Science“Phenomenology of Child Care – Neuvola in Finland as Field –