Thinking the Time Experience of Confinement with Levinas and Maldiney

ABSTRACT

During the last years our daily life has been affected by a long experience of confinement, due to COVID-19. But is the experience of confinement really new? The main aim of this text is to examine the link between temporality and confinement, in light of the experiences of suffering and melancholic depression described by Levinas and Maldiney. Thus, we will show that both experiences involve the loss of the transcendence's time that invites to ask if the existential confinement limits its meaning in its purely spatial definition.