Sleep and Insomnia in Levinas and Shakespeare’s Henry IV
In his seminal Existence and Existents, Emmanuel Levinas linked the impersonal event of the il y a, the “there is” of inert, factical existence, to a condition of insomnia. His analysis of insomnia holds a unique place in his oeuvre where a thorough ambivalence toward 'being' manifests its...
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University of Zadar
2014-12-01
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Series: | [sic] |
Online Access: | http://www.sic-journal.org/ArticleView.aspx?aid=306 |