Elsewhere. Ontology and ethics between Kafka and Levinas

Abstract

There could be no Burrow if there were no elsewhere. Everything in the burrow starts with life, but life simply isn’t there. The burrow is precisely this: the effort to give a form of space to the life that is elsewhere. As also happens in the house of Levinas: another attempt to give a form of space to the radical separation between ontology and ethics. With a fundamental difference: in Kafka the burrow is formed starting from a primacy of thought, in Levinas starting from the primacy of the sensible.