Reality and its Shadow, a brief yet powerful essay written in 1948, is the only text where Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) deals solely with ontology of art. Already this early text, we can see how his understanding that ethics ground philosophy drives discussion. The nature art therefore treated relation to what it does, ethically, subject, maker, viewer. Art “inhumanity” “inversion” ethic...

There is a consensus among scientists, conservationists and policy-makers that the diversity of life value should be preserved. However, conservation concerns are usually not reducible to protection diversity. This raises question: What specific reasons protect biodiversity as (if any)? Classical answers this question refer insurance, its links with stability or other valuable properties ecosys...

It seems that complaints about Heidegger’s style of writing are common fare in secondary literature and the classroom. This paper argues that both Heidegger’s obtuseness and obscurantism work as methodological devices for effectively communicating and demonstrating his thought. By obfuscating, he forces breakdowns, which pulls the reader out of her ready-to-hand mode of reading/revealing, which...

The purpose of the article is to show how E. Levinas reveals preontological possibilities an ethical relationship, which built not on principle a totalizing logos and order, overwhelming suppressed, but “relationship without relationship”, has pronounced methodological consequences. first part reconstructs Levinas’ criticism classical ontological tradition, inevitably reductive in relation obje...