Opening up queer possibilities in Levinas: From problems of fecundity in Totalité et infi ni to the development of Late Levinas

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  • レヴィナスにおけるクィアな可能性を開くために : 『全体性と無限』における繁殖性の問題から後期レヴィナスの展開へ
  • レヴィナス　ニ　オケル　クィア　ナ　カノウセイ　ヲ　ヒラク　タメニ　ゼンタイセイ　ト　ムゲン　ニ　オケル　ハンショクセイ　ノ　モンダイ　カラ　コウキ　レヴィナス　ノ　テンカイ　ヘ

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The purpose of this study is to critically examine the normativity of E. Levinas’s theory of sexuality and to present possibilities that emerge despite its normativity. To that end, I try to articulate both normativity and possibilities of his theory of sexuality from the standpoint of “queer.” In the first section, I set out a philological foothold to critically examine the theory of sexuality in Totalité et infi ni from the viewpoint of temporality. For this purpose, I explain why this book demands the temporality of fecundity. In the second section, I explain that the temporal structure of fecundity lies in a patriarchal, heterocentric, and cisgender-centric perspective that privileges reproduction. In the fi nal section, I demonstrate that Levinas’s late writing departs from the normativity of the concept of fecundity and includes queer readability. To that end, I fi rst read late Levinas’s theory of aging and show that this theory can be materialized from the perspective of sexual relationships in M. Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu. Furthermore, I argue that contrary to the heterocentrism that Levinas’s reading of Proust ostensibly presupposes, the theory of caress in Autrement qu’être ou au-delà de l’essence (1974) shows a queer bodiness that deviates from heterosexual reproduction.

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  • 年報人間科学

    年報人間科学 45 17-30, 2024-03-31

    Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

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