Polytheism, Monotheism and Public Space: Between Levinas and Arendt

Peter Schmiedgen

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Polytheism, Monotheism and Public Space: Between Levinas and Arendt

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Pages:: 225–237

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789047408765_013

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In this paper I argue that the Levinasian opposition between the violence of the production of identity and self-presence and its undermining in a charitable disburdening of the self for the sake of the monotheistic ethical other, is unable to provide all the resources required for a politically motivated critique of the present. As a critique of Levinas’ almost Manichean opposition between identity and difference, I argue, by appealing to the Arendtian model of public space, that Levinas underestimates our capacity to build and open up societal spaces within which a non-violent polytheistic political difference can proliferate. The identity of the built and legislated can constitute a non-violent stage upon which discursive political differences are played out.

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Series: Social and Critical Theory, Volume: 3

E-Book ISBN:: 9789047408765

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2006

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