Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art
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loginI have been asked more than once why I do not write, or have not written, aphilosophical aesthetics, somewhat along the lines of the metaphysics of Beingand the Between,or the approach to ethics of Ethics and the Between.Philoso-phy and Its Othersdoes have a chapter entitled “Being Aesthetic” which mightbe seen to contain in nucewhat could be amplified more fully, as the chapterentitled “Being Ethical” might be seen as being an ethics in nucethat flowersintoEthics and the Between. While this present book is not that work, andthough behind it lie some systematic reserves, it does represent an engage-ment with the importance of art for philosophy, a concern which has beencontinuous for me, and not separable from the importance of religion for bothart and philosophy. The themes of otherness, origin, art have also been a con-tinuing preoccupation of mine, not only in my first published books,1but inother essays since then. Some of these essays supplied earlier drafts for partsof some of the reflections to follow and I am happy to acknowledge that here.
