Memoria y judaísmo en Emmanuel Lévinas

It is a common ground in contemporary philosophical discussions about the workof Emmanuel Levinas to question his approach to such dissimilar traditions as phenomenologyon the one hand and interest in the thinking of the Hebrew Bible andthe Talmud on the other. This problematic relationship between these two philosophicaland Jewish traditions, which in apparent tension in the work of Levinas,can account for (in this case the Jewish), a new and different understanding of memory,and which the work of the Lithuanian philosopher presents us. This study willattempt to reconstruct what may be the only text where Emmanuel Levinas wroteexplicitly about memory, a Talmudic commentary entitled Au-delà du souvenir,which is interpreted very well as a detailed synthesis of the place of the memory in his philosophical thinking. In this text, Levinas thinks the richness of memory in its varied dimensions, in a reading that moves between the exegetical commentary and the phenomenological approach, that will lead him to think about themes such as tradition, reading and liturgy; as well as the eschatological dimension of memory and its relation to the Holocaust.