Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing by Malabou Catherine; Shread Carolyn; Crockett Clayton

Author:Malabou, Catherine; Shread, Carolyn; Crockett, Clayton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI027000, Philosophy/Movements/Deconstruction, PHI019000, Philosophy/Political
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

X. THE FANTASTIC AND PHILOSOPHY: LEVINAS

The second source of the philosophical “fantastic” is Levinas’s philosophy. Levinas diverts the category of “fantastic” from its strictly aesthetic bonds (poetic, novelistic, cinematographic…) by conferring a resolutely ontological dimension upon it. The fantastic then refers to the appearance of ontological difference in reality or, if you like, the appearance of the image of ontological difference in the real, right in among things. As we know, Levinas translates the terms of ontological difference—Being and being—as “existing” (or “existence”) and “existent.” The fantastic appears when a dissociation arises between existing and existent. “Existing” is thought of as a sort of floating background of presence with no ontic status, which, in one sense, affects us only through the horror it inspires:

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