Zagadnienie cielesności w ujęciu Emmanuela Lévinasa: rozkosz erotyczna i pieszczota

Abstract

Levinas 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 Levinas as a basic way of human existence, as a primary experience of himself, earlier and separate from intentionality. This thought of Levinas 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 Levinas’ bodily, sensual anthropology in moral theology in order to show the ethical dimension of erotic approach.