Abstract
Levinas has been assimilated into many discourses, but this diffusion has also blunted the edge of some of his radicalism. This essay focuses on how Levinas' notions of transcendence remain radically other than traditional Western notions of it. This is not explored, however, through the phenomenological philosophy that most typically frames discussions of his work nor in terms of the religious resonances and resources he also certainly and powerfully draws on. Rather, the author explores this by focusing on the specific problematics of language that are in fact pivotal to both Levinas' phenomenological and religious engagements. These, in turn, reflect on languages of poetic undertaking in, for example, the poetry of Robert Frost, where Levinas' radical ethics of linguistic transcendence is explored.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Poetics of Transcendence |
Publisher | Brill |
Pages | 83-106 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Volume | 51 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789401212090 |
ISBN (Print) | 9789042039285 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 5 Mar 2015 |
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