Tentation esthétique et exigence éthique. Lévinas et l’œuvre littéraire

La position de Levinas vis-à-vis de l'art et de la littérature continue à intriguer par son ambivalence. L'expérience esthétique met tantôt hors jeu le rapport éthique, tantôt elle semble l'événement-même de ce rapport. Les textes théoriques et les essais consacrés à Proust et à Celan montrent que le statut de l'œuvre littéraire dans la pensée de Levinas oscille structurellement entre esthétique et éthique, nous renvoyant tantôt au règne impersonnel de l'" il y a ", tantôt au visage d'autrui. Mais l'exégèse imposée par Levinas à ces textes n'opère-t-elle pas une véritable " conversion éthique de l'esthétique ", laissant dans l'ombre tout ce qui, dans le texte littéraire, excède le rapport à autrui ?Levinas's position on art and literature keeps puzzling us by its ambivalence. Æsthetical experience now makes every ethical relation impossible, now it seems the very event of this relation. The theoretical texts and the essays on Proust and Celan show that the status of literary work in Levinas' thoughts structurally oscillates between aesthetics and ethics. It now makes us return to the impersonal reign of the "il y a", now opens up the face of the other. But does the exegesis imposed upon these texts by Levinas not operate an "ethical conversion of the aesthetic", disregarding all that is not the relation to the other

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