Pensees de l'exteriorite levinas-blanchot
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Abstract EN:
Levinas makes a clean break from the western philosophical tradition centered around the question of being and based on the concept of ego cogito as the origins of knowledge within the present of the evidence. It is his contention that philosophy begins with ethics and not ontology and phenomenology. From then on, reflection takes aim at that which overflows it. I. E. , absolute exteriority (infinity, face, god). From the common retreat from presence in both blanchot's and levinas philosophies emerges the concept of the trace. For blanchot, this is the "effroyablement ancien" (frighteningly ancient), and the "disaster" which testifies to an immemorial past. Some analogous notions from levinas to blanchot, i. E. , infinity, trace, neutrality, disaster, "effroyablement ancient" (frighteningly ancient), relate to the unthinkable, and to exteriority understood as that which exceeds the realm of consciousness. These terms are understood in their distance from the word being and the possibility of the present. The "effroyablement ancien" (frighteningly ancient) in blanchot's philosophy is connected to the cycle of the "eternal return", erases the notion of present time, and subsitutes for being a force whose intimacy is exteriority - a game of free forces constitutive of exterior space.
Abstract FR:
Levinas rompt avec la tradition philosophique occidentale dominee par la question de l'etre, fondee sur l'ego cogito comme origine de la connaissance dans le present de l'evidence. Il exprime que la philosophie premiere n'est pas l'ontologie, la phenomenologie, mais l'ethique. Des lors, la pensee vise ce qui la deborde, l'exteriorite absolue: l'infini, le visage, dieu. Le retrait de la presence commun a blanchot et levinas, laisse surgir une pensee de la trace - chez blanchot l'"effroyablement ancien", le "desastre" - qui exprime un passe immemorial. Les notions en rapport d'analogie de levinas a blanchot: l'infini, la trace, le neutre, le desastre, l'"effroyablement ancien" ont trait a l'impensable, a l'exteriorite entendue comme ce qui deborde la sphere de la conscience. Ces termes se comprennent dans leur eloignement du mot etre et de la possibilite d'un present. L'"effroyablement ancien" en rapport chez blanchot avec le mouvement de l'eternel retour derobe le present, substitue a l'etre la force dont l'intimite est exteriorite, jeux de libres intensites constituant l'espace du dehors. L'ecriture de blanchot exprime ce mouvement vers l'exteriorite disant l'obscur sans le mettre a decouvert.