Levinas, Ionesco, or the art of se débarrasser of being
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During the interwar period Europe experienced a crisis of traditional modes of political and social legitimacy, which soon provoked the search for an “exit” and renewal of the old foundations of sovereign power. In “De l'évasion” (1935) Levinas was able to recognize this epochal feeling and simultaneously warn about the underlying dangers of new salvific projects. The present article aims to analyze the Levinasian reflections of 1935, based on a
joint study over his Talmudic Readings “Desacralization and Disenchantment” and “Damages Due to Fire” (1971), as well as the work Amédée ou Comment s'en débarraser (1954) by Eugène Ionesco. This will allow to comprehend the meaning granted by Levinas to the elemental atmosphere that penetrated the interwar Europe, as well as the Levinasian commitment to the work of art as a model of thinking an escape or evasion from that epochal atmosphere.
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