Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/SwR6GF Radical Passivity Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas Publisher: Springer Print ISBN: 9781402093463, 1402093462 eText ISBN: 9781402093470, 1402093470 Copyright year: 2009 Format: PDF Available from $ 139.00 USD SKU 9781402093470 Levinasâs ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible â that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass atrocities that occurred during the Second World War. The Holocaust , like the Cambodian genocide, or those in Rwanda and Srebrenica, exemplifies what have come to be known as the ânever againâ situations. After these events, we looked back each time, with varying degrees of incomprehension, horror, anger and shame, asking ourselves how we could possibly have let it all happen again. And yet, atrocity crimes are still rampant. After Rwanda (1994) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992â1995), came Kosovo (1999) and Darfur (2003). In our present-day world , hate crimes motivated by racial, sexual, or other prejudice, and mass hate such as genocide and terror, are on the rise (think, for example, of Burma, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and North Korea). A critical revaluation of the conditions of possibility of ethical agency is therefore more necessary than ever. This volume is committed to the possibility of ânever againâ. It is dedicated to all the victims â living and dead â of what Levinas calls the âsober, Cain-like coldnessâ at the root of all crime against humanity , as much as every singular crime against another human being .
