Abstract
The goal of this article is to explain Levinas' assessment of aesthetic experience in its own specificity, different from the rest of our possible relations to the world of phenomena and things, by destroying this world. However, since Levinas at the same time considers this essence of aesthetic appeal to be supremely irresponsible, that is, the suppressive action of transcendence - and adds that it is because it leads us to experience being itself - it is our intention to explain such claims by the elaboration in them of an implicitly present critique of Heidegger's ontology.
And, like that philosophy which, according to Levinas, was never able to explain transcendence, it even advanced theses that inadvertently went directly against its meaning.