Abstract

As it is known, Levinas proposes a thought of the otherness that, as absolute or infi nite, invites the subjectivity to a relationship without common measure, constitutive of the freedom of the subjectivity. Now, not only in Levinas but also in Fichte it is possible to fi nd this fi gure of otherness. In fact, he develops it concretely in his 1794 Doctrine of Science, regarding his theory of recognition. Th e purpose of this article then is to return to these two thinkers to outline both the points of approach and the diff erences that measure the distance and the fracture between them