Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Date
2011-09-13
Keywords
Emmanuel Levinas, Henri Bergson, aesthetics, art, philosophy
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71073
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Emmanuel Levinas and Henri Bergson have two very different approaches to the topic of aesthetics. Yet both have made unique contributions to the philosophy of art, and, specifically, to questions surrounding the temporal nature of art. This project attempts to read these two thinkers together over the question of the time of art. In doing so, this paper aims to discover whether art has its own kind of time, distinct from both the objectively measurable time favored by science, and the variable, subjective time vividly described by both Levinas and Bergson. This exploration will also seek to discover what, if indeed art is found to occupy a distinct temporal zone, artworks can tell us about existence more generally.
Recommended Citation
Graham, Katherine, "Bergson and Levinas on the Time of Art" (2011). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 280.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/280