Abstract

ABSTRACTThis essay will examine, in turn, the three practices that appear to guide “polethics”—Michel Deguy's system for orienting the subject's relationship to other subjects in the world. By closely following Michel Deguy's lifelong attention to Baudelaire's insights into seeing and sight, which anchor modernist experience, our exploration will lead us to better understand that—far from a pastime or passive activity—gazing at the other is the very condition of possibility of an ethics founded on empathy.

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