Question
In a section on “The Notion of Enjoyment,” this book claims that “if I eat my bread in order to labor and to live, I live from my labor and from my bread.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this book in which Emmanuel Levinas described how the “face of the Other at each moment destroys and overflows the plastic image it leaves me.”
ANSWER: Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority [or Totalité et Infini: essai sur l’extériorité]
[10h] While explaining the notion of vivre de (“veev-ruh duh”), Levinas uses this two-word phrase to summarize “air, light, spectacles, work, ideas, sleep, etc.” as examples of things we “live from.” Robert Eaglestone glosses this phrase as a reference to the staple food of concentration camps.
ANSWER: good soup [or bonne soupe]
[10e] Levinas argues Descartes better understood the nature of “living from” than this German pioneer of phenomenology, whose Cartesian Meditations were first translated into French by Levinas.
ANSWER: Edmund Husserl
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |