Both Minkowski and Levinas introduced in France phenomenological thinking, psychopathology and metaphysics, respectively.

It is in this context that interested raise the similarities and differences in relation to the study of time these authors in their link to the construction of the self (soi-même).

Both authors take up the relevance of temporality in the construction of the psychic, overtaking Husserl's phenomenology, the distinction between thinking and intuition discursive and theoretical thinking and sensitivity.

Comparative analysis of the problem of time and its relation to the psyche, Le temps vécu of Minkowski, Autrement qu’être of Levinas.

You can set a break with Husserl's phenomenology, inspired by the philosophy of Bergson, based on the living back in the studio. At the same time, among the authors reviewed, there is an irreconcilable discrepancy in the notions of activity and passivity in relation to the construction of the self (soi-même).

Phenomenology applied to the psychic needs to return to its original inspiration to go beyond a methodological rigid reading, which ends up betraying its spirit, which leads her to forget the living world in its complexity.

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