Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences) ›› 2009, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (6): 83-86.

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On the Position of Aesthetics in Levinas’ Alterity Ethics

  

  1. (1.Chinese Department,Xiamen University,Xiamen,Fujian 361005,China;2.Department of literature,Humanity College,Nanjing Arts Institute,Najing,Jiangsu 210013,China)
  • Online:2009-11-15 Published:2012-03-22

Abstract: Levinas was dedicated to the Other,and he thought that the alterity of Other was absolute.This ethical project certainly had influence on his account of aesthetics.The controversy over the Beauty and the Good had lasted for a long time,and Levinas,who took ethical metaphysics as the First Philosophy,responded the controversy with his account of aesthetics.Aesthetics should have a fundamental position in Levinas’ ethics.

Key words: ethic, aesthetics, alterity, Levinas

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