By Gabriel Riera

Intrigues: From Being to the opposite examines the potential of writing the opposite, explores no matter if a moral writing that preserves the opposite as such is feasible, and discusses what the consequences are for an ethically inflected feedback. Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot, whose works represent the main thorough modern exploration of the query of the opposite and of its relation to writing, are the main target of this research. The book's horizon is ethics within the Levinasian experience: the query of the opposite, which, at the hither aspect of language understood as a approach of symptoms and of illustration, needs to be welcomed by means of language and preserved in its alterity. Martin Heidegger is an unavoidable reference, even if. whereas it truly is precise that for the German thinker Being is an immanent creation, his elucidation of a extra crucial realizing of Being includes a deconstruction of onto-theology, of the signal and the grammatical and logical determinations of language, all decisive beginning issues for either Levinas and Blanchot.At stake for either Levinas and Blanchot, then, is the way to mark a nondiscursive extra inside discourse with no erasing or decreasing it. How may still one learn and write the opposite within the related with out decreasing the opposite to the same?Critics in recent times have mentioned a moral second or turncharacterized by way of the other's irruption into the order of discourse. the opposite turns into a real crossroads of disciplines, because it impacts numerous facets of discourse: the structure of the topic, the prestige of data, the character of illustration, and what that illustration represses (gender, power). but there was an inclination to graft the opposite onto paradigms whose major objective is to re-evaluate questions of identification, essentially when it comes to illustration; the opposite therefore loses a few of its most important features.Through shut readings of texts by means of Heidegger, Levinas, and Blanchot the ebook examines how the query of the opposite engages the very limits of philosophy, rationality, and power.