TY - BOOK AU - Toumayan, Alain P TI - Encountering the Other: The Artwork and the Problem of Difference in Blanchot and Levinas SN - 0820703478 U1 - N86.1LE PY - 2004/// CY - Pennsylvania PB - Duquesne University Press N1 - 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 ER -