عنوان

Divine Anonymities:

شماره

LA124982

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Divine Anonymities:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

On Transascendence and Transdescendence in the Works of Levinas, Celan, and Lispector

نام نخستين پديدآور

Joseph Ballan

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Those points at which Emmanuel Levinas's later work touches on the question of God express a profound ambiguity. Here it is often the case that theism becomes indistinguishable from atheism, ethics is shown to be indistinguishable from religion and, to cite two important concepts invented by Levinas, il y a (lit., "there is;" denotes bare, senseless material existence) becomes indistinguishable from illeité (lit., "it-ness;" denotes the absolute distance or anonymity of God). While Levinas insists upon a measure of ambiguity or enigma in all truthful religious discourse, these series of ambiguities are often covered over by Levinas's ethical project as soon as they appear. With the aid of two deeply philosophical writers in whose work we find literary analogues of the ambiguities thematized in Levinas-the poet Paul Celan and the novelist Clarice Lispector-this paper offers a critique of Levinas's thin, often moralistic, concepts of alterity and transcendence. The critique proceeds by showing how Celan and Lispector demonstrate the consequences of thinking the anonymity of God and the corresponding undecidability of the most-high and the most-low (i.e., transascendence and transdescendence) to its logical conclusion. In the process, Celan and Lispector emerge as original religious thinkers in their own right, not merely as counterweights to Levinas. Those points at which Emmanuel Levinas's later work touches on the question of God express a profound ambiguity. Here it is often the case that theism becomes indistinguishable from atheism, ethics is shown to be indistinguishable from religion and, to cite two important concepts invented by Levinas, il y a (lit., "there is;" denotes bare, senseless material existence) becomes indistinguishable from illeité (lit., "it-ness;" denotes the absolute distance or anonymity of God). While Levinas insists upon a measure of ambiguity or enigma in all truthful religious discourse, these series of ambiguities are often covered over by Levinas's ethical project as soon as they appear. With the aid of two deeply philosophical writers in whose work we find literary analogues of the ambiguities thematized in Levinas-the poet Paul Celan and the novelist Clarice Lispector-this paper offers a critique of Levinas's thin, often moralistic, concepts of alterity and transcendence. The critique proceeds by showing how Celan and Lispector demonstrate the consequences of thinking the anonymity of God and the corresponding undecidability of the most-high and the most-low (i.e., transascendence and transdescendence) to its logical conclusion. In the process, Celan and Lispector emerge as original religious thinkers in their own right, not merely as counterweights to Levinas.

تاريخ نشر

2008

توصيف ظاهري

540-558

عنوان

Religion and the Arts

شماره جلد

12/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5292

اصطلاح موضوعی

ALTERITY

اصطلاح موضوعی

CELAN

اصطلاح موضوعی

ETHICS

اصطلاح موضوعی

LEVINAS

اصطلاح موضوعی

LISPECTOR

اصطلاح موضوعی

RELIGION

اصطلاح موضوعی

TRANSCENDENCE

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Joseph Ballan

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852908X357380

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y