Intrigues : from being to the other / Gabriel Riera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riera, Gabriel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Other (Philosophy).

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This book examines the possibility of writing the other and explores whether an ethical writing that preserves the other as such is possible. It also discusses what the implications are for an ethically inflected criticism. Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, whose works constitute the most thorough contemporary exploration of the question of the other and of its relation to writing, are Riera's main focus. Critics in recent years have discussed an ?ethical moment or turn? characterized by the other's irruption into the order of discourse. The other becomes a true crossroads of disciplines, since it affects several aspects of discourse: the constitution of the subject, the status of knowledge, the nature of representation, and what that representation represses (gender, power). Through close readings of texts by Heidegger, Levinas, and Blanchot, this book examines how the question of the other engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power.

Contents:

The passion of time : au moment voulu (Nietzsche-Heidegger-Blanchot)

Dwelling : between poiêsis and techné

The enigma of manifestation (figuration in Heidegger)

Plot and intrigue : from being's other to the "otherwise than being" (language, ethics, poetry in Levinas)

Art's inhumanity : "reality and its shadow"

"The writing of the outside" (the "potentialities of literary language" in Otherwise than being)

The unerasable difference : Levinas in Blanchot.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.

ISBN:

9780823226719

0823226719

OCLC:

74940996