Creating Heaven on Earth by Marcus Paul;

Author:Marcus, Paul;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Karnac Books

The “there is” is unbearable in its indifference. Not anguish [as in Heidegger's es gibt, “there is”], but horror, the horror of the unceasing, of a monotony deprived of meaning. Horrible insomnia. When you were a child and someone tore you away from the life of the adults and put you to bed a bit too early, isolated in the silence, you heard the absurd tie in its monotony as if the curtains rustled without moving. My efforts…consist in investigating the experience of the exit from this anonymous “nonsense.” (2001, pp. 45–46)

Finally, Levinas draws from the French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot, to describe the “there is”:

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