‘As a Stranger, Bid It Welcome’: Alterity and Ethics in Hamlet and the New Historicism

Lawrence, Seán

doi:10.1076/1382-5577(200008)4:2;1-q;ft155

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“…This presupposes, going a step further, that equality before the law is preceded by the recognition of asymmetry, of the other that demands the responsibility of the I. This responsibility is not responsibility for itself, but rather for and in the presence of the other (Lawrence, 2001, pp. 155-169).…”

Section: The Levinasian Critique Of Politics: Beyond the Refuge-cities Of Liberalismmentioning

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Politics in Levinas and Derrida

Urabayen

Casero

2015

Sage Open

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This essay investigates the conception of politics in the works of Levinas and Derrida to show not only their points of convergence but also (and especially) their differences. We have structured this article into two sections, dedicated respectively to Levinas and to Derrida. In this article, we will reflect on one of the topics that has traditionally been considered to link Levinas and Derrida most strongly, and will seek to show that their critiques of liberal political theory are very different, and are built on the basis of distinct presuppositions. In this way, we will be able to go deeper into Levinas's political theory, and we will establish a reading concerning the relationship between the political theories of Levinas and Derrida that accepts the classical interpretation that sees the Algerian as the heir and continuer of the Lithuanian but confirms that Derrida uses Levinas's critique only as a point of departure. In Derrida's political works, written after Politics of Friendship, there is ever more distance between him and the Lithuanian, and the meaning of his critique of liberalism is completely different.

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Section: The Levinasian Critique Of Politics: Beyond the Refuge-cities Of Liberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%