Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
תיאוריה וביקורת; במה ישראלית
Angaben zur Quelle:
40 (2012) 67-95
Keywords:
ליוטר, ז'ן פרנסואה,
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Jewish philosophy 1945-
Abstract:
The theme of “after Auschwitz,” introduced by Theodor Adorno, became a central thread in the writings of the contemporary French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard. To explain the reasons for this, I develop the argument that this theme signifies a constitutive turning point in moral philosophy, a point at which moral philosophy was knocked off its axis. The shock waves of this radical shift spread to the Western republican political discourse. I argue that this moment is primarily related to the moral duty of moral philosophy, a duty that has always existed, to detach itself from Hegelian speculative thinking—the type of thinking that came to its end at “Auschwitz,” as Adorno argued—from its main concepts, its fundamental distinctions, and its philosophical and moral operations. In this paper, I expand upon and examine the philosophical and moral consequences of this duty.The paper has two parts. In the first part I establish the claim that the death called “Auschwitz” is also the event that signifies the end of the Hegelian speculative discourse. I discuss the philosophical, moral, and political implications of this end. At the center of this discussion are two broad issues, which are interconnected and develop in relation to each other. The first concerns the ways in which moral philosophy responds to disaster, any disaster, and not only the disaster of “Auschwitz.” The second involves rethinking the reason that constitutes the linkage of the “we”—of any group, community, or nation.In the second part of the paper I develop the possible outlines of an ethics that deals with obligation “after Auschwitz,” mainly in light of the end of Hegelian speculative thought at “Auschwitz.” These outlines are developed following Lyotard’s thought.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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