The Violence of Being. The Holocaust in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas.
This contribution shows how the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas has been confronted autobiographically with National-Socialism (1933-1945) and how his personal experience and the experience of the Jewish people under Hitlerism were translated in his philosophical understanding of ‘being’ as ‘il...
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=163399556&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 163399556 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13921126 3D4C jtl: Problems / Problemos issn: 13921126 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2022 Supplement pid: 16037 pub: Vilnius University artinfo: ui: 163399556 10.15388/Problemos.Priedas.22.7 ppf: 85 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 2.1MB tig: atl: The Violence of Being. The Holocaust in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. aug: au: Pollefeyt, Didier affil: Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy Vilnius University. su: Lévinas, Emmanuel, 1906-1995 Jews Violence Philosophers sug: subj: Lévinas, Emmanuel, 1906-1995 Jews Violence Philosophers keyword: Emmanuel Levinas ethics God Holocaust Judaism Dievas Emmanuelis Levinas etika Holokaustas judaizmas ab: This contribution shows how the Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas has been confronted autobiographically with National-Socialism (1933-1945) and how his personal experience and the experience of the Jewish people under Hitlerism were translated in his philosophical understanding of ‘being’ as ‘il y a’ (in English: ‘there is’). The Holocaust provides a unique negative point of entry to understand Levinas’ ontological category which is as such not understandable since in the il y a, there is no longer a subject that stands before the objectivity of reality. On the contrary, the il y a is exactly the category that expresses a situation where the subject itself has no longer the ‘right’ to exist as such but still does not stop to exist. This violence of being is exactly what Hitlerism wanted to do in creating the Holocaust and submitting the Jewish people to it. This makes understandable how the whole philosophy of Levinas is an effort to overcome the il y a through a moral answer to the Holocaust. Straipsnyje parodoma, kaip žydų filosofas Emmanuelis Levinas autobiografiškai susidūrė su nacionalsocializmu (1933–1945) ir kaip jo asmeninė patirtis bei žydų tautos patirtis hitlerizmo laikais atsispindėjo jo filosofiniame „būties“ kaip il y a (liet. „tai yra“) supratime. Holokaustas suteikia unikalų negatyvų atspirties tašką, leidžiantį suprasti Levino ontologinę kategoriją, kuri pati savaime nėra suprantama, nes il y a nebėra subjekto, stovinčio prieš tikrovės objektyvumą. Priešingai, il y a yra būtent ta kategorija, kuri išreiškia situaciją, kai pats subjektas nebeturi „teisės“ egzistuoti kaip toks, bet vis tiek nenustoja egzistuoti. Būtent tokio būties smurto siekė hitlerizmas, sukurdamas Holokaustą ir pajungdamas jam žydų tautą. Dėl to tampa suprantama, kaip visa Levino filosofija yra pastangos įveikti il y a per moralinį atsaką į Holokaustą. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Problems / Problemos is the property of Vilnius University and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Problems / Problemos holder: Vilnius University dt: @attributes: year: 2022 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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