CRITICISM AND DECONSTRUCTION, OR HOW VIOLENCE IS PUT IN QUESTION: LEVINAS AND DERRIDA FACING (AND WITHIN) THE VIOLENCE OF SILENCE
This article aims to analyze the problem of violence, astackled by Derrida in his dialogue with Levinas. It is asked in particular how it is possible to think critically about violence if we assume that violence constitutes us. In order to do this, it dwells on the difference that Derrida establishe...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Kriterion (Online) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/32514 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/kriterion/article/view/32514 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Levinas Derrida Silence Violence Critic Desconstruction Silencio Violencia Crítica Deconstrucción |
| Sumario: | This article aims to analyze the problem of violence, astackled by Derrida in his dialogue with Levinas. It is asked in particular how it is possible to think critically about violence if we assume that violence constitutes us. In order to do this, it dwells on the difference that Derrida establishesbetween criticism and deconstruction and on his analysis of the relationship between violence and silence. One of the main theses of this article is that what allows a critique of violence refers to what Derrida calls “trace”, that is, asilence that inhabits language and that does not refer to a previous meaning. In addition, this article focuses on the critic Derrida addresses to Levinas in “Violence and metaphysic”. It shows that far from fitting this critique, Levinas’s analysis of the relation between language and silence implies a radicalization of Derrida’s thesis on what he calls the “worst violence”. |
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