Emmanuel Levinas’s doubts about the ethical value of artistic beauty have been widely acknowledged by the vast majority of Levinas’s commentators. However, though it is true that in “Reality and Its Shadow” Levinas persistently rebukes artistic beauty for its nonethicality, it is undeniable that he at least upholds the value of artistic criticism and modern literature. In this article I intend to relate Levinas’s exploration of the possibility of spiritual–ethical teaching in literature to Immanuel Kant’s reflections on the relation between the feeling of beauty, that of sublimity, and sensible feeling in his third Critique. This up-close comparative examination fosters understanding of Levinas’s religious and philosophical approach to the sublime elements in some literary works, especially those of Fyodor Dostoevsky.

伊曼纽尔·列维纳斯（Emmanuel Levinas）对艺术美的伦理价值的怀疑已被绝大多数列维纳斯评论家广泛承认。然而，虽然列维纳斯在《现实及其影子》中固执地斥责艺术美的不道德，但不可否认的是，他至少维护了艺术批评和现代文学的价值。在这篇文章中，我打算将列维纳斯对文学精神伦理教学可能性的探索与伊曼纽尔·康德在他的第三部批判中对美感、崇高感和感性感之间关系的反思联系起来。. 这种近距离的比较研究促进了对列维纳斯对某些文学作品（尤其是陀思妥耶夫斯基的作品）中崇高元素的宗教和哲学方法的理解。