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Levinas attempted to go beyond the correlation between life and world by taking a kind of metaphysical step back to the facticity of the body as an event still related to subjectivity. For Levinas, however, the examination of this facticity leads to the limits of phenomenology. In this paper I show that this double movement within and beyond phenomenology may help us to better understand its limits and to learn something about the bodily human condition itself.

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