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Toumayan, Alain P

Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas - Pennsylvania Duquesne University Press 2004 - 231p

Identity and Difference ......8
La Difference .....9
The Principle and Leap of Identity in Heidegger......13
Entering the Element: Blanchot`s Thomas the Obscure .......19
Levinas: Difference and the Ethical Relation .........29
The Problem of Death .......44
Levinas and the Otherness of Death .......45
Difference, Dialectic and Death ........50
Encountering Death ......65
3. Two Stories of the Encounter : Orpheus and Ulysses......85
Orpheus and Inspiration .......86
Inspiration and the Trace ..........93
Blanchot`s Conclusion .......97
Ulysses and the Sirens.......100
Novel and tale ......105
The Ambiguity of the Present ........109
4. Encountering the Image .....114
The Image ....115
The Version of the Image .......127
5. Encountering the Other Night ......144
Encountering the Il y a .........148
The Other Night .......158
Two Stories of the Other Night .........162
Difference and the Other Night ......166

ISBN: 0820703478

Dewey Class. No.: N86.1LE / T644