エマニュエル・レヴィナス『全体性と無限』におけるエロス論

「顔の彼方」の一解釈

抄録

In this paper, we deal with the Eros in Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy, especially in one of his main work Totality and Infinity. In recent years, many studies have been conducted to investigate the levinasian Eros. But most of these still tend to connect the Eros with Fecundity. Against those studies, we wonder if the levinasian Eros has only meaning to give birth, or if the feminine that Levinas described is only the being that give birth, and if he fails to get at the nature of erotic phenomena after all, etc...
We answer these questions, connecting the Eros with the relation to the Face of the Other. In so doing, we pay attention to two points: 1) the Third in the relation to the Face of the Other, 2) the obscene in voluptuousness. These are the essence to levinasian thought of the Eros. And in this paper, the meaning of “Beyond the Face” is investigated in this point of view, too. In conclusion, an emergence of the obscene needs to a denial of the Face of the Other and of its publicness. This is the meaning of Beyond the Face, in our viewpoint.