The erotic/aesthetic quality seen from the perspective of Levinas’s ethical an-archaeology
This paper emphasizes the place and the role of the aesthetic quality and the role of the erotic in Levinas’s project that deals with ethical an-archaeology. Despite Levinas’s categorical statements that there are irreconcilable differences between ethics and aesthetics, i.e. between eth...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Filozofija i Društvo |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0353-5738/2020/0353-57382001098M.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper emphasizes the place and the role of the aesthetic quality and the
role of the erotic in Levinas’s project that deals with ethical
an-archaeology. Despite Levinas’s categorical statements that there are
irreconcilable differences between ethics and aesthetics, i.e. between
ethics and the erotic, above all, it is emphasized here that these
differences do not represent a stark or sharp contrast, but quite contrary,
they often constitute a subversive ontological element. On the other hand,
somewhat unexpectedly, with its ethical anti-aestheticism Levinas’s
“noncontemporary” thought appears to be, at the same time, both significant
and critical, elementary, emancipatory and contemporary in relation to
present-day reactionary reactualization and revitalization of the aesthetic
quality which mechanically proceeds to develop on the margins of Levinas’s
emancipatory past. |
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| ISSN: | 0353-5738 2334-8577 |