Ethical
Levinas’s integrated ethical-relational structure.
The Eighteen Convergent Patterns
9. Warmth and firmness as a single move
These operate as compatible rather than opposed. When he holds a position the holding includes the warmth; when he extends warmth the warmth includes the holding. Neither arrives as a concession extracted from the other.
The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.
Read through the lenses
Phenomenological
Integrated affective-cognitive texture rather than sequential operation.
Aesthetic-linguistic
Compressed register that holds two registers simultaneously.
Performative-dramaturgical
Single speech-act performing multiple relational functions.