Abstract
The study deals with the role of rhythm in the work of art according to Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille. At first, I focus Levinas's and Bataille's manner of conceiving of the sensual nature of the work of art.
Further, I follow Levinas's and Bataille's approach to the presence of rhythmic organization in aesthetic event, which can be encountered in work of art for instance. I point out that both authors suppose considers rhythm not only as the principle of the organization of aesthetic event, but the principle, which maintains this event overt.
On the one hand, rhythm obstructs the disintegration of this event into chaos, anonymous murmuring od death; on the other hand, rhythm prevents this event from being covered by the emergence of object, or conceivable meanings.