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Ethics and ontology have become prominent concepts in recent anthropology, informing a variety of research endeavours. Despite their different approaches, agendas, and concerns, they share a central focus on alterity and the relationship between self and other: Who is the other? How should I relate to the other?
Jan David Hauck
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"Esau I Hated: Levinas on the Ethics of God's Absence [PDF]
Emmanuel Levinas objects to traditional theodicy. But his objection to theodicy is so untraditional that God’s existence is incidental to it. The primary problem with theodicy, he argues, is not evidential but ethical.
Houser, Kevin
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Knowledge Creation Through Self‐(de)construction: Self‐Transcendent in Knowledge Spiral in “Ba”
ABSTRACT In this conceptual study, we delve into the intricate relationship between human agency, referred to as “self”, and the process of knowledge creation. Drawing inspiration from Derrida's concept of deconstruction and Levinas's idea of the Other, our research explores how knowledge emerges through the integration of the self with the Other ...
Naser Firoozi, Akram Hatami, Satu Nätti
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The purpose of the present article is to compare Antoine Berman’s theory of translation with Emmanuel Levinas’ ethical philosophy. Contrary to what has often been claimed, these works differ in many aspects that will be systematically addressed.
Sathya Rao
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Human rights and the law: the unbreachable gap between the ethics of justice and the efficacy of law [PDF]
This paper explores the structure of justice as the condition of ethical, inter-subjective responsibility. Taking a Levinasian perspective, this is a responsibility borne by the individual subject in a pre-foundational, proto-social proximity with the ...
Indaimo, Joseph A.
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“We Embraced Each Other by Our Names”: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ethics of Naming
Emmanuel Levinas’ and Jacques Derrida’ s theories of names and naming are discussed in a context that casts light upon the complex relationships among names and the named on the one hand, and onomastics and other fields and discourses on the other.
Christian Moraru
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Levinas, Durkheim, and the Everyday Ethics of Education [PDF]
This article explores the influence of Émile Durkheim on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas in order both to open up the political significance of Levinas’s thought and to develop more expansive meanings of moral and political community within education.
Anna Strhan +15 more
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The Symbolistic Christology in Frantz Fanon's Existentialist Thought
ABSTRACT This article attempts to answer a provocative question: Can existentialist thought provide insights into the nature of Christ? Specifically, what might we learn about Christ from existentialist such as Frantz Fanon, even if only implicitly? In offering a response to the question, I propose a symbolistic Christology through an examination of ...
Chammah J. Kaunda
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Caveat Emptor:On Time, Death and History in Late Modernity [PDF]
This article focuses on 'revivalism' and 'resurrectionism'. While the former is a sociological label for contemporary rituals of dying and death, the latter is a label for contemporary practices of historiographical representation.
Palladino, Paolo
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Legacies of the OSEA ethnography and Maya language field school (1997–2023)
Abstract This article discusses the legacies of the Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology (OSEA) field school programs and projects. OSEA was founded in 2003 in Pisté, Yucatán, Mexico, and continues to offer an array of programs to undergraduates, graduate students, non‐students, and scholars.
Quetzil E. Castañeda
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