caa a22 4500 463165438 CHVBK 20180406164759.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11007-006-9022-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11007-006-9022-5 Caruana John Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada aut The drama of being: Levinas and the history of philosophy [Elektronische Daten] [John Caruana] The motif of the ‘drama of being' is a dominant thread that spans the entirety of Levinas's six decades of authorship. As we will see, from the start of his writing career, Levinas consciously frames the tension between ontology and ethics in a dramatic form. A careful exposition of this motif and other related theatrical metaphors in his work--such as ‘intrigue,' ‘plot,' and ‘scene'--can offer us not only a better appreciation of the evolution of Levinas's thought, but also of his proper place within the western philosophical tradition. Levinas accuses western philosophers of being exclusively attuned to what he calls the ‘drama of existence.' And even then, philosophers have eluded the implications of the tragic fatalism that define this drama. Philosophers are generally unaware of an ‘other scene' that radically alters the fatalistic logic of the ontological drama. Levinas calls this other scene the ‘ethical intrigue.' Springer Science+usiness Media, Inc., 2006 Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/3(2007-07-01), 251-273 1387-2842 40:3<251 2007 40 11007 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9022-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-006-9022-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Caruana John Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Continental Philosophy Review Springer Netherlands 40/3(2007-07-01), 251-273 1387-2842 40:3<251 2007 40 11007 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer