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The 'face' of the il y a: Levinas and Blanchot on impersonal existence

Kris Sealey

Continental Philosophy Review 46 (3):431-448 (2013)

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Lévinas’s Philosophy of the Face: Anxiety, Responsibility, and Ethical Moments that Arise in Encounters with the Other.Lewis Liu - 2024 - Human Affairs 34 (3):440-459.details Lévinas’s philosophy emerges from his critique of the traditional sources of Western philosophy and employs phenomenological methods to transcend the conventional theology and ethics of subjectivity. Through a series of inquiries, Lévinas expands the narrow philosophical vision and problem domain related to the philosophy of the Other. This study examines the profound impact of Lévinas’s philosophy on contemporary philosophy and human society, particularly its elucidation of people’s anxiety, confusion, and overwhelm with the ethical dimension of life in postmodern society. In (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Lévinas’s déb'cle: Looking for the face(s) of the human in the twenty-first century.Monika Murawska - 2022 - Technoetic Arts 20 (1):65-78.details We are living in an age when ‘everything is coming apart at the seams’, as the poet and painter Erna Rosenstein put it. Given this, I analyse the concept of the débâcle formulated and used by the French phenomenologist François-David Sebbah to explore the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas. The débâcle connotes catastrophe, fracture, failure, collapse and disintegration, but its semantic range also encompasses the breaking up of ice, escape and ruin. As Sebbah dissects this concept in the context of the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Haunted by the Other: Levinas, Derrida and the Persecutory Phantom.Michael Burke - 2021 - Film-Philosophy 25 (3):362-385.details In this article, I explore what I call the persecutory trope – which underscores the alterity of the phantom and its relentless haunting and spectral oppression of the protagonists – in recent American ghost films, connecting it to the ethical thought of the continental philosophers, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Films like The Ring, The Grudge, It Follows, and Sinister depict terrifying spectral antagonists whose relentless persecution of the protagonists often defies comprehension and narrative closure. I suggest that these films (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
How to Paint Nothing? Pictorial Depiction of Levinasian il y a in Vilhelm Hammershøi’s Interior Paintings.Harri Mäcklin - 2018 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 5 (1):15-29.details Contemporary phenomenological discussions on relationship between painting and nothingness have mainly employed Sartrean and Heideggerian notions of nothingness. In this paper, I propose another perspective by discussing the possibility of pictorially depicting Levinas’s notion of the nothingness of being, which he develops in his early works in terms of the il y a. For Levinas, the il y a intimates itself in moments like insomnia, where the world as a horizon of possibilities slips away and all there is left is (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
The Violence of Being. The Holocaust in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.Didier Pollefeyt - forthcoming - Problemos:85-94.details This contribution shows how the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas has been confronted autobiographically with National-Socialism (1933-1945) and how his personal experience and the experience of the Jewish people under Hitlerism were translated in his philosophical understanding of ‘being’ as ‘il y a’ (in English: ‘there is’). The Holocaust provides a unique negative point of entry to understand Levinas’ ontological category which is as such not understandable since in the il y a, there is no longer a subject that stands before (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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