Ethics of Responsibility and Ambiguity of Politics in Levinas’s Philosophy
The destruction of man in the Shoah or Holocaust did not mean that Levinas argues in favor of turning away from the socio-historical reality to cultivate his own little garden. The deepest truth of subjectivity can be found in an alterity that calls for a socio-political responsibility. The politic...
Main Author: | Luc Anckaert |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Vilnius University Press
2020-04-01
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Series: | Problemos |
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Online Access: | https://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/17114 |
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