Ickapoo needs to embrace Alterity and the Other to overcome being imprisoned in the Self and Solitude, as philosophers Ricouer and Levinas espouse.
I will examine the radical empiricisms of Ricoeur and Levinas. As previously shown with Heidegger, I will demonstrate that radical empiricisms translate into repetitions rather than deviations from metaphysics. Ricoeur, Levinas and Merleau-Ponty's turn to existential phenomenology and intersubjectivity represents a turn to overcome metaphysics, not unlike Heidegger, and thus repeat it by inscribing it as a negative or Jewish variant in the emphasis on Otherness and intersubjectivity in place of Being and presence. Their “ethical turn" was a turn to privilege Other over self and corporeality over transcendental which elides differance and the q
