Abstract:Contemporary phenomenological discussions on relationship between painting and nothingness have mainly employed Sartrean and Heideggerian notions of nothingness. In this article, I propose another perspective by discussing the possibility of pictorially depicting Levinas's notion of the nothingness of being, which he develops in his early works in terms of the il y a ("there is").For Levinas, the il y a intimates itself in moments like insomnia, where the world as a horizon of possibilities slips away and all … Show more
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