Torsion and temulence in the work of Emmanual LeÌvinas : a critical examination of the staging and regulation of ethical space
This study engages the problem of ethical space in the work of Emmanuel Levinas by situating the âproductionâ of what Levinas will term the âfaceâ (le visage) against the horizons of its institution. It is against these horizons, it will be maintained, horizons apt for phenomenological reconstitution, that the face is revealed <i>qua</i> face. Through a broadening of such Levinasian explicata as âfilialityâ, âfecundityâ, âfraternityâ, âteachingâ and âmaternityâ, the heritability of the face will be deduced and the face placed within the context of its imperative milieu â the ethical circumstances of its signification. This injunctive environment, the staging or mise-en-scĂšne for the face-to-face relation Levinas assays, will, <i>pace</i> Levinas, be exhibited upon the ground of its constitution and its provenance scrutinized, in order that the legacy of the face might be complicated, and its putative non-historical status, challenged. It will be argued that Levinas limits, unnecessarily, the ambit of what her permits to signify as a face, and thus that tacitly deposited suppositions regulate the composition and configuration of the face within his work. These posita will be worked
Roesch-Marsh, Edward
Torsion and temulence in the work of Emmanual LeÌvinas : a critical examination of the staging and regulation of ethical space. This study engages the problem of ethical space in the work of Emmanuel Levinas by situating the âproductionâ of what Levinas will term the âfaceâ (le visage) against the horizons of its institution. It is against these horizons, it will be maintained, horizons apt for phenomenological reconstitution, that the face is revealed <i>qua</i> face. Through a broadening of such Levinasian explicata as âfilialityâ, âfecundityâ, âfraternityâ, âteachingâ and âmaternityâ, the heritability of the face will be deduced and the face placed within the context of its imperative milieu â the ethical circumstances of its signification. This injunctive environment, the staging or mise-en-scĂšne for the face-to-face relation Levinas assays, will, <i>pace</i> Levinas, be exhibited upon the ground of its constitution and its provenance scrutinized, in order that the legacy of the face might be complicated, and its putative non-historical status, challenged. It will be argued that Levinas limits, unnecessarily, the ambit of what her permits to signify as a face, and thus that tacitly deposited suppositions regulate the composition and configuration of the face within his work. These posita will be worked
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