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Kierkegaard in arguing on Lutheran grounds that such love first requires a relation to God as a “middle term,” but that Levinas cannot appeal to this relation to account for neighbour love, as for him the God ...
, 170), it is “entirely command and authority” (1967, 291). It may seem paradoxical that the presence of utter defenselessness is also the presence of a command, but for Levinas, the encounter ...
IN AN ESSAY ON ‘WORDS AND THE POET’ (1963), R. S . THOMAS once affirmed his adherence to the ‘belief that there is probably something symptomatic in words that tend to recur in a poet’s work ...
says. And that standard and fixed point is “the absolute status of an interlocutor” or the face to face encounter with a hard and substantial interlocutor, who is the origin of himself, already ...
that one might ‘interfere[ s ] with the lack of closeness by writing about it’. Closeness is figured as an effect of writing itself, never more so than in the paradoxical bringing-close of distance: You close ...
most wide-ranging insight’.20 Following Kierkegaard , Derrida focuses on the archetypal Abraham as caught between an absolute singular being’s call (the divine command to sacrifice his beloved only son ...
, the primary mode of encounter between subject and object is epistemic: the knowing subject represents to itself objects that it perceives by means of the senses. This account finds its paradigmatic expression ...
hand, suggests that God’s simultaneous presence and absence is a “ paradox ” with which Christians try to engage (Engelke 2007, 9). Building on this point, his analyses especially pay attention ...
grotesque appearance with that perfect prose and then reflected upon the super-subtle meanings embodied in this paradox . The apparent contradiction between the person and the prose also fed into a suspicion ...
and evaluation process through which each detainee is passed. In Mr. Butler’s description, an ‘ integrated team of interrogators, analysts, behavioural scientists and regional experts’ works alongside military ...
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