Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Levinas Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (2021) 37-58
Keywords:
Lévinas, Emmanuel
;
Derrida, Jacques
;
Honneth, Axel,
;
Justice Philosophy
;
Jewish philosophy 20th century
Abstract:
As Axel Honneth argues in his early essay "The Other of Justice," Derrida and Levinas offer convincing arguments for offsetting practical philosophy's traditional focus on justice with a focus on care. In Honneth, this leads to a strict dichotomy of justice (as equal treatment) and care (as singular responsibility). I show that Derrida and Levinas think of justice and responsibility not as dichotomic, but rather as aporetic. In all ethico-political conflicts, aspects of responsibility and justice are in play that are irreducible to, and in constant tension with, one another. Derrida and Levinas disclose a constitutive aporia of justice. This aporia opens up new perspectives on normativity.
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