Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism

Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism

The article is a description of Emmanuel Lévinas’ metaphysical-ethical thought in the context of relativistic-atheistic criticism by Alain Badiou. According to Badiou, Lévinas’ ethical concept, which refers to the radical, Infinite Otherness of another human being, is something absurd and impossib...

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Main Author: Wojciech Zalewski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie 2019-12-01
Series:Edukacja Etyczna
Subjects:
levinas
badiou
violence
ethics
Online Access:https://edukacjaetyczna.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/6.pdf
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spelling doaj-e80ec4f6f20d42a0bd0e1f3121ac01f92020-11-25T02:50:10ZengUniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowieEdukacja Etyczna2083-89722019-12-01169811010.24917/20838972.16.6Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s CriticismWojciech Zalewski0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1150-7339Uniwersytet JagiellońskiThe article is a description of Emmanuel Lévinas’ metaphysical-ethical thought in the context of relativistic-atheistic criticism by Alain Badiou. According to Badiou, Lévinas’ ethical concept, which refers to the radical, Infinite Otherness of another human being, is something absurd and impossible to implement. In the first part of the article I briefly present the most important assumptions of Lévinas. In the second part I present the critical arguments that Badiou made against Lévinas in his Ethics. In the last part, agreeing with the Lévinas’s perspective, I reject Badiou’s allegations, pointing out that agreement with Badiou means that violence has an ethical legitimacy.https://edukacjaetyczna.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/6.pdflevinasbadiouviolenceethics
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Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism
Edukacja Etyczna
levinas
badiou
violence
ethics
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title Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism
title_short Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism
title_full Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism
title_fullStr Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism
title_full_unstemmed Against Violence: Emmanuel Lévinas’ Ethical Concept and Alain Badiou’s Criticism
title_sort against violence: emmanuel lévinas’ ethical concept and alain badiou’s criticism
publisher Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
series Edukacja Etyczna
issn 2083-8972
publishDate 2019-12-01
description The article is a description of Emmanuel Lévinas’ metaphysical-ethical thought in the context of relativistic-atheistic criticism by Alain Badiou. According to Badiou, Lévinas’ ethical concept, which refers to the radical, Infinite Otherness of another human being, is something absurd and impossible to implement. In the first part of the article I briefly present the most important assumptions of Lévinas. In the second part I present the critical arguments that Badiou made against Lévinas in his Ethics. In the last part, agreeing with the Lévinas’s perspective, I reject Badiou’s allegations, pointing out that agreement with Badiou means that violence has an ethical legitimacy.
topic levinas
badiou
violence
ethics
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