Can evil create? Lévinas in conversation with tikkun olam and Kierkegaard
In this article, I look at the phenomenological expression of creativity through language as a way of relating to the self and others. Employing the Jewish concepts of the yetzerim, or impulses, philosophically, I suggest that these instances of existential engagement further develop the ethical act...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Donner Institute
2018
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Nordisk judaistik
Year: 2018, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 39-48 |
Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Evil B Kierkegaard B Levinas B Existential phenomenology B Creativity |
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Summary: | In this article, I look at the phenomenological expression of creativity through language as a way of relating to the self and others. Employing the Jewish concepts of the yetzerim, or impulses, philosophically, I suggest that these instances of existential engagement further develop the ethical act of tikkun olam, or the mending of the relational world. Moving beyond theodicies of good and evil, I will develop this account of relation by drawing on Emmanuel Lévinas’s and Søren Kierkegaard’s philosophy of subjectivity. I argue, therefore, that language can express particular accounts of relationality that can serve to clarify the ambiguous relationship between good and evil. |
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ISSN: | 2343-4929 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Nordisk judaistik
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30752/nj.68861 |