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published on October 28, 2022
Gabriella Baptist
https://doi.org/10.5840/levinas2022102725
Derrida¡¯s Glas between Hegel and Levinas
Derrida¡¯s Glas can be interpreted against the background of a confrontation with Hegel, after and with Levinas. Derrida¡¯s position in front of the great shadows of tradition (see ¡°Violence and Metaphysics¡±) becomes in Glas an exceeding of the limits, searching for the other than logos, for instance, remains or writing. Glas is interpreted on the background of Derrida¡¯s reading of Levinas: against the archeologic totality of Hegel¡¯s system, Glas does not oppose nevertheless the eschatological infinity of a metaphysical alterity, but rather the finite infinity of a transgressive desire for contingency. Language, art, and literature, much more than the ethical or religious dimension, are external phenomenological transcendence, against which Hegel¡¯s system of absolute knowledge and Genet¡¯s literary experiments are constantly measured.