Inna śmierć (Blanchot, Lévinas, Biezuchow)
A Different Death (Blanchot, Lévinas, Biezuchow)

Summary/Abstract: In Emmanuel Lévinas’s thanatology, metaphysics gives way to a primary ethics. We must not -be toward death but instead, share the position of those who are dying, thus are always infinitely different from us. This is one reason more for us to perceive our fellow humans in their terrifying Otherness.Maurice Blanchot tackled the trauma of that il-y-a – the horror of impersonal existence – more ruthlessly; in the obscurity of the Other, he did not encounter traces of any God, living or lost. The absurdity of this always non-literal death is sometimes most acutely accessible to his fictitious characters. Count Lev Tolstoy believed that simple people die the most beautiful deaths. It is, therefore, thanks to him that Prince Andrei Bolkonsky will once more be opposed by his good kind-hearted friend.

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