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Intrigues - From Being to the Other (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Intrigues - From Being to the Other (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Intrigues: From Being to the Other examines the possibility of
writing the other, explores whether an ethical writing that
preserves the other as such is possible, and 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 the main focus of this study. The
book's horizon is ethics in the Levinasian sense: the question of
the other, which, on the hither side of language understood as a
system of signs and of representation, must be welcomed by language
and preserved in its alterity. Martin Heidegger is an unavoidable
reference, however. While it is true that for the German
philosopher Being is an immanent production, his elucidation of a
more essential understanding of Being entails a deconstruction of
onto-theology, of the sign and the grammatical and logical
determinations of language, all decisive starting points for both
Levinas and Blanchot. At stake for both Levinas and Blanchot, then,
is how to mark a nondiscursive excess within discourse without
erasing or reducing it. How should one read and write the other in
the same without reducing the other to the same? 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). Yet there has been a
tendency to graft the other onto paradigms whose main purpose is to
reassess questions of identity, fundamentally in terms of
representation; the other thus loses some of its most crucial
features. Through close readings of texts by Heidegger, Levinas,
and Blanchot the book examines how the question of the other
engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power.
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