(Un)Saying the Other: Allegory and Irony in Emmanuel Levinas's Ethical Language

ISBN-13: 9783631526897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 170 str.

Kalaga, Wojciech

Opis

The problem of signifying the other within the logocentric language occupies an important place in Emmanuel Levinas s ethics. (Un)Saying the Other examines the ways in which Levinasian discourse the discourse always already partaking of ontological injustice enables the ethical articulation of otherness. The author explores the unfolding of ethical expression both opened and troubled by the allegorical and ironic ruptures of the logocentric language. Reflecting on the philosophical complications incumbent in the potentially infinite process of interrupting the ontological language, the book argues for the responsible rethinking of the ethical call to unsay."

Spis treści

Contents: Ethical Language - Undoing of the Ontological Closure - Allegory and Irony as Strategies of Interruption - Otherness - Thirdness.

O autorze

The Author: Ewa Rychter was born in 1972 in Walbrzych (Poland). She graduated from the Wroclaw University with a degree in English Studies and was awarded a doctorate degree at the University of Silesia in 2002. At the moment, the author teaches literary theory and English literature at the State College of Higher Education in Walbrzych.