“The War to End All Wars”: Mimetic Theory and “Mounting to the Extremes” in a Time of Disaster
Let me introduce this chapter with two quotes. The first is from Emmanuel Levinas: Everyone will readily agree that it is of the highest importance to know whether we are not duped by morality. Does not lucidity, the mind’s openness upon the true, consist in catching sight of the permanent possibil...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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Does religion cause violence?
Year: 2018, Pages: 67-92 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mimesis
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
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| Summary: | Let me introduce this chapter with two quotes. The first is from Emmanuel Levinas: Everyone will readily agree that it is of the highest importance to know whether we are not duped by morality. Does not lucidity, the mind’s openness upon the true, consist in catching sight of the permanent possibility of war? The state of war suspends morality; it divests the eternal institutions and obligations of their eternity and rescinds ad interim the unconditional imperatives. In advance its shadow falls over the actions of men. War is not only one of the ordeals—the greatest—of which morality lives; it renders morality derisory. The art of foreseeing war and of winning it by every means—politics—is henceforth enjoined as the very exercise of reason. Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naiveté. We do not need obscure fragments of Heraclitus to prove that being reveals itself as war to philosophical thought, that war does not only affect it as the most patent fact, but as the very patency, or the truth, of the real.... |
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| ISBN: | 9781501333866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Does religion cause violence?
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5040/9781501333866.ch-005 |
