![]() ![]() Too bad they never talk.Īidos (“shame”) is a vast word in Greek. They do not mean the same thing by this word. Oddly, if you asked Phaidra to name her system she would also say “shame”. If you asked Hippolytos to name his system he would say “shame”. What might such a conversation have changed? What does the face matter? Both Hippolytos and Phaidra systematically avoid certain kinds of precariousness. Phaidra wants to be like Hippolytos, but she has not a single conversation with him in the course of the play. Hippolytos wants to be like Artemis, but even in death he is not allowed to see her face. There is no way out, all corridors lead back into the system. A system of corridors where people follow one another but never meet, never find the way out. ![]() A system of reflections, distorted reflections, reflections that go awry. “The face as the extreme precariousness of the other…” Emmanuel Levinas, Basic Philosophical Writings ![]()
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