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Gefährdetes Leben, Verletzbarkeit und die Ethik der Kohabitation

  • Judith Butler
Published/Copyright: November 13, 2012

Abstract

The article scutinizes the solicitation we experience when affected by human suffering at a distance. Referring to the approaches of Emmanuel Lévinas and Hannah Arendt, the author outlines her Ethic of Cohabitation and points to both writers’ particular and rather diverging affiliation to Jewish heritage. The author’s own idea of alternative Jewishness emphasizes the importance of solidarity with those who are threatened by persecution or subjugation, with the dispossessed and the “ungrievable”, even and especially with those who exceed our immediate sphere of belonging.

Published Online: 2012-11-13
Published in Print: 2012-11

© by Akademie Verlag, Berlin, Germany

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