... 35. Levinas’s conception of jouissance in Totalit´eet in ni is distinctly culinary – ‘Nourishment, as a means of invigoration,is the transmutation of the other into the same, which is in the ... limits of the ethical.a poetics of proximity In the experience of the workof art, Levinas says, we enter into ‘amode of being to which applies neither the form of consciousness,since the I is there ... both of which expose us to regions of subjectivity or existence on the hither side of cognition and being. The ethical and the poetic are evidently species of saying (le Dire )in contrast to the...