ENJOYMENT IN LEVINAS AND THE AESTHETICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE

• Authors: Hoyos Morales Alfonso
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

LEVINAS; ENJOYMENT; EVERYDAY AESTHETICS; PHENOMENOLOGY

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 72 – 87

Contributors

author

Hoyos Morales Alfonso

• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Plaza Cívica 08193 Bellaterra, Spain

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5866431