Lévinas is observing Roquentin and the autodidact in the reading room of Bouville

Abstract

This lecture is the second part of a series of literary-philosophical essays on the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas that is in the process of being formed. The series, beginning with a consideration of Elias Canetti's Die Blendung, is an experimental and templated philosophical analysis of the literature of the 1920s and 1930s.

Levinas' ethics represent that template.

Keywords

• Lévinas
• Sartre
• Nausea
• Roquentin
• Autodidact
• Philosophy of literature