Zagadnienie cielesności w ujęciu Emmanuela Lévinasa:  rozkosz erotyczna i pieszczota

Jan Słomka

doi:10.15633/lie.3579

Embodiment According to Emmanuel Lévinas: Erotic Pleasure and Caress

Authors

Jan Słomka Uniwersytet Śląski

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15633/lie.3579

Keywords:

Lévinas, sensuality, erotica, anthropology, moral theology

Abstract

Lévinas describes erotic close-up and pleasure as analogous to meeting a man appearing in the face of another. This rapprochement realized in the caress is a delight. Pleasure is treated by Lévinas as a basic way of human existence, as a primary experience of himself, earlier and separate from intentionality. This thought of Lévinas makes it clear how sensual the sensation is in fact human, and above all how specific human the sensuality of eroticism, which is the sensuality of intimacy with another human being, and how different it is from sensations caused by any artificial impulse. This difference applies to all human corporeality. The human body and its sensuality are not simply matter and impulses. This approach to eroticism and corporeality allows us to see two paradigms of knowledge of reality and two anthropologies, and indicate the possibility of referring to Lévinas’ bodily, sensual anthropology in moral theology in order to show the ethical dimension of erotic approach.

Author Biography

Jan Słomka, Uniwersytet Śląski

Ks. prof. dr hab. Jan Słomka – pracownik naukowo-dydaktyczny Instytutu Nauk Teologicznych Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach, wykładowca patrologii w Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego w Łodzi. Autor monografii: Nowe proroctwo: historia i doktryna monoteizmu, Katowice 2007; Wczesnochrześcijańskie nazwy chrztu, Katowice 2009; Historia duchowości: czas ojców Kościoła, Katowice 2016; Wprowadzenie do teo-
logii katolickiej, Katowice 2018. Ponadto autor kilkudziesięciu artykułów naukowych publikowanych między innymi w „Śląskich Studiach Teologiczno-Historycznych” w Katowicach. Jego zainteresowania koncentrują się przede wszystkimi na patrologii oraz historii i teologii duchowości. Obecnie przygotowuje publikacje o teologii papieża Franciszka oraz filozofii Emmanuela Lévinasa jako ancilla theologiae.

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Published

2020-04-30

Issue

Vol. 52 (2020): Narracje o technoewolucji – nowe technologie i nowy człowiek?

Section

Nowe ciała i odwieczne problemy

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