Enjoyment in Levinas and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
Enjoyment in Levinas and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life
Author(s): Alfonso Hoyos MoralesSubject(s): Aesthetics, Phenomenology
Published by: Spoločnosť pre estetiku na Slovensku a Inštitút estetiky a umeleckej kultúry Filozofickej fakulty Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove
Keywords: Levinas; Enjoyment; Everyday Aesthetics; Phenomenology; Beauty; Sublime;
Summary/Abstract: Through the concept of enjoyment in Levinas, this paper examines the phenomenological and ontological dimension of everyday aesthetics. Enjoyment, in Levinas, forms an essential element in the constitution of the subjectivity of the human being and is no longer to be seen as a moment of ‘inauthenticity’ or ‘alienation’. The experience of the objects of everyday experience is not related to that of objects of representation or of tools, but rather to that of a system of nourishment into which the subject is integrated, as in an ‘element’ or ‘atmosphere’. This constitutive closeness of enjoyment indicates the fundamental difference between what we understand as everyday aesthetics and other aesthetics characterised by contemplation or disinterest.
Journal: ESPES
- Issue Year: 10/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 72-87
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English