Violence and Vulnerability: Kafka and Levinas On Human Suffering

In this article I read Franz Kafka's story 'In the Penal Colony' together with Emmanuel Levinas' article 'Useless Suffering' to explore two diametrically opposed responses to vulnerability in a particular situation: when it has found expression in the form of extreme su...

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Main Author: Geddes, Jennifer L. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 400-414
IxTheo Classification:NBC Doctrine of God
NCA Ethics
VA Philosophy
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