Saving Heidegger's conception of art as poetry from Levinas polemic against art in general

The following thesis will attempt to find room in Levinas' polemic against art for Heidegger's conception of art as poetry. Chapter One will begin by unpacking the key concepts found in Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art". More specifically, the tension and unity between the self-concealing Earth and the revelatory World that comprises the structure of art as poetry will be described as gesturing towards Heidegger's perspectival conception of truth: truth as the unconcealment of being which our fundamental mode of being presences, discloses and/or reveals through its delimiting, comporting and objectifying nature in language. In contrast, Chapter Two will outline Levinas' dismissal of art in general in "Reality and Its Shadow" which finds its basis in the irreducible nature of the ethical other as described in Totality and Infinity.Levinas' re-conceptualization of ethics in Otherwise than Being in terms of "ethical language" as characterized by the constant interruption of the concrete, immanent, totalizing Said by the metaphorical, transcendent, unthematizable Saying will be drawn into parallel with Heidegger's conception of the Earth/World structure of art as poetry in Chapter Three. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)...