‘Light, whether it emanates from the sensible or from the intelligible sun, is since Plato said to be a condition for all beings … whatever may be the physico-mathematical explanation of the light which fills our universe, phenomenologically it is a condition for phenomena, that is, for meaning. Kant’s space is essentially a lit up space: it is in all its dimensions accessible, explorable … The world, whose existence is characterised by light, is not, then, the sum of existing objects.' [Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents (1978: translated 2001), 47-48]
I note this as context for the last line of my most recent novel, which is now in paperback, and available from all good bookshops. Also from amazon.
A quick end of year thank you for your blog(s). I miss both Punkadiddle and Sibilant Fricative but invariably find something I didn't know, or hadn't seen in a particular light, on this blog. As someone who is also university-based, I remain amazed at how much ground you manage to cover.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Ruzz!
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