Five: Art's Inhumanity: “Reality and Its Shadow”
Five: Art's Inhumanity: “Reality and Its Shadow”
This chapter discusses Emmanuel Levinas' criticism on the inhumanity of art in his essay “Reality and Its Shadow”. It explains that the il y a plays a central role in Levinas' thinking and in his determination of the nonethical nature of the work of art. Levinas places transitional layers between the anonymous rumbling of the il y a and the order of the world or totality, and considers the exposure of consciousness to the il y a as a horror that throws subjectivity into an impersonal vigilance.
Keywords: Emmanuel Levinas, inhumanity of art, Reality and Its Shadow, art criticism, consciousness, il y a
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