Banal and Implied Forms of Violence in Levinas' Phenomenological Ethics

Kritike 1 (1):52-70 (2007)
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Despite his final call for peace and "the wisdom of love", Emmanuel Levinas inevitably spoke of violence, and perhaps spoke even more of it. His call for infinite responsibility is actually crystallized through discourse on violence and suffering. We may say that these themes served as catalysts to the standing theory and, ethically, to any responsible Self. Violence, at least as a concept, poses itself as a significant presence to Levinas' plantilla while it reaches unexplored dimensions that await phenomenology and vital thought. As a part of his ethical proposal, understanding violence becomes important so that the Self may go beyond it while reaching the Other.

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reprint Alfez, Fleurdeliz (2013) "Banal and Implied Forms of Violence in Levinas' Phenomenological Ethics". Journal of Human Values 19(1):52-70

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Fleurdeliz Altez-Albela
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Is Ontology Fundamental?Emmanuel Levinas - 1989 - Philosophy Today 33 (2):121-129.
Useless suffering.Emmanuel Levinas - 1988 - In Robert Bernasconi & David Wood, The Provocation of Levinas: Rethinking the Other. New York: Routledge. pp. 156--167.
Diachrony and representation.Emmanuel Levinas - 2001 - In John D. Caputo, The Religious. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 76--88.

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