Strangers in the Threshold: Love, Wisdom, and the Task of Philosophy with Will Buckingham

May 29, 2022 – What is philosophy? Why do we philosophise? And why, in a time of crisis, does philosophy matter? A familiar answer might be that philosophy is the love of wisdom, that we philosophise out of a hunger for wisdom, and that this deep need for wisdom is all the greater when we navigate through times of crisis. But for the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, this gets things back to front. Philosophy, Levinas writes, is not the love of wisdom. It is, instead, the wisdom of love in the service of love. Why do we philosophise? Why do we awaken…