Unconditional Responsibility in the Face of Disastrous Violence: Thoughts on religio and the History of Human Mortality
This essay draws attention to the question how a strong notion of unconditional responsibility in the face of the other’s mortality (as it was claimed by Emmanuel Levinas) is related to the historical experience of a disastrous violence that seems to annihilate not only numerous bodies, lives, ident...
| Published in: | Journal for continental philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2019
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Journal for continental philosophy of religion
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| Further subjects: | B
disastrous violence
B natural and human history B unconditional responsibility and religio |
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| Summary: | This essay draws attention to the question how a strong notion of unconditional responsibility in the face of the other’s mortality (as it was claimed by Emmanuel Levinas) is related to the historical experience of a disastrous violence that seems to annihilate not only numerous bodies, lives, identities and histories but, rather, any responsible religio to the other - whether living or dead. It is well known, that Levinas claimed that human responsibility demands not to let the other alone in his death. But if the other is already dead - like numerous others who share the same fate - keeps human responsibility silent, then? And how is this religio of human responsibility related to forms of disastrous violence which seem to deny it? |
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| ISSN: | 2588-9613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for continental philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25889613-00102004 |