The Ethics of the Face in Art: On the Margins of Levinas’s Theory of Ethical Signification in Art
In ‘Reality and Its Shadow’, Levinas dismisses knowledge as a whole from art. This has deep implications for the ethical. The aesthetic event has nothing to do with the ethical event – art does not seem to hold a place for ethical knowledge. This situation is problematic with respect to the conflict...
Main Author: | Akos Krassoy |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Helsinki University Press
2016-05-01
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Series: | Estetika |
Online Access: | https://estetikajournal.org/articles/143 |
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