Starting with Emmanuel Levinas: Trails for a Renewed Politics of Emancipation in Front of Current Ultraconservative Trends
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https://doi.org/10.25180/lj.v27i2.388Keywords:
Emmanuel Levinas, Identity, Political Theory, Politics of Emancipation, UltraconservatismAbstract
The ideological and political context at the end of the first quarter of the 21th century is characterized by a certain dynamic of ultraconservative tendencies on the European and American continents. At the same time, the left-wing political forces that carried the ideals of emancipation in the 20th century appear to be in crisis.
This article of political theory aims to explore trails drawn from Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy in order to renew a politics of emancipation. Two angles are privileged: 1) the possibility of “the departure from being” in front of the identitarianist rigidities of current ultraconservative politics, and this through the figures of escape, caress, and the face; 2) a proposal for an "anarchist social democracy", through the tensions between individual/collective, anarchy/anarchism, and singularity of the Other/social justice.
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