Introduction
This is why through the face
filters the obscure light
coming from beyond the face,
from what is not yet,
from a future never future enough,
more remote than the possible. 1
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| An Ethics of Love |
| EXPLORE THE SERIES |
| Epigraph | |
| An Ethics of Love | |
| Part 1.1 | Part 1.2 |
| Others and the Loved Other | The Escape |
| Part 1.3 | Part 1.4 |
| Epistemological Escape | Ontological Escape |
| Part 2 | Part 3 |
| Love and Time | Separation, Death and Remaining the Other |
| Overture | Annex |
| An Ethics of Love – Overture | An Ethics of Love – Annex |
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Footnotes
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Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity: an Essay on Exteriority, trans. A. Lingis (Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1992), 254-255.
In place of an introduction: a footnoted warning. This essay is not only inspired by the views of Levinas on love in Totality and Infinity; it is also inspired by the form of Levinas’s writings. Through his unique prose, Levinas gives philosophy the possibility of becoming a creative discourse, a voice that does not stop at describing or commenting the world, but also one that contributes to the world through its very nature as commentary. Levinas, a student of Heidegger, also makes of philosophy an introspective experience, where the philosopher-subject investigates inwardly the possible linguistic expressions that may emerge out of an initial intuition. The philosopher thus becomes a weaver, the inceptive energy that slowly disappears behind a thread, a textile, a text that takes form through the very act of weaving, and not in response to a pre-planned mental scenario. The reader expecting an erudite, ‘neutral’ of theoretical demonstration giving its due to a pantheon of other philosophical authorities, would thus face some disappointment at the reading of this essay. The audience only eager to hear what is nothing but a story may enjoy it slightly more.