Oh my neighbors, there is no neighbor

This article meditates on the Christian command to love the neighbor as yourself by focusing on how both Jacques Derrida and Søren Kierkegaard have read this command. I argue that Derrida, failing in his faithfulness to Kierkegaard, makes a mistake when he includes this command in the Greek model of...

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Published in:International journal of philosophy and theology
Main Author: Bechtol, Harris B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2019]
In: International journal of philosophy and theology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kierkegaard, Søren 1813-1855 / Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004 / Love of neighbor / Politics
RelBib Classification:NCB Personal ethics
NCD Political ethics
TJ Modern history
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Kierkegaard
B Love
B Derrida
B Neighbor
B Philosophy of religion
B Politics
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Summary:This article meditates on the Christian command to love the neighbor as yourself by focusing on how both Jacques Derrida and Søren Kierkegaard have read this command. I argue that Derrida, failing in his faithfulness to Kierkegaard, makes a mistake when he includes this command in the Greek model of the politics of friendship in his Politics of Friendship. Such a mistake is illumined by Kierkegaard's understanding of the neighbor in this command from Works of Love because this understanding helps to develop Derrida's vision of a democracy and politics that resists the hegemony of the masculine and remains open to the event of a non-hierarchical relation to the other.
ISSN:2169-2335
Contains:Enthalten in: International journal of philosophy and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2018.1488149