Encountering the other : the artwork and the problem of difference in Blanchot and Levinas / Alain P. Toumayan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Toumayan, Alain.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Blanchot, Maurice.

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Difference (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

ix, 231 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2004]

Contents:

1 Identity and Difference 8

"La Differance" 9

The Principle and Leap of Identity in Heidegger 13

Entering the Element: Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure 19

Levinas: Difference and the Ethical Relation 29

2 The Problem of Death 44

Levinas and the Otherness of Death 45

Difference, Dialectic, and Death: "Literature and The Right to Death" 50

Encountering Death: Thomas the Obscure and Death Sentence 65

3 Two Stories of the Encounter: Orpheus and Ulysses 85

Orpheus and Inspiration 86

Inspiration and the Trace 93

Blanchot's Conclusion 97

Ulysses and the Sirens 100

Novel and Tale 105

The Ambiguity of the Present 109

4 Encountering the Image 114

The Image 115

Time and the Work of Art 120

Blanchot and the Image 124

The Versions of the Image 127

Image and Cadaver 132

The Image and the Artwork 136

Duplicity and Ambiguity 139

Encountering the Image 142

5 Encountering the Other Night 144

Exoticism and the Il y a 146

Il y a 147

Encountering the Il y a 148

Writing and Solitude in Blanchot 155

The Other Night 158

Two Stories of the Other Night 162

Difference and the Other Night 166

Difference and Interpretation 169

From Art to the Ethical Subject 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-224) and index.

ISBN:

0820703478

0820703486

OCLC:

53038576