Death as Boundary: On a Key Question of Emmanuel Levinas: Der Tod als Grenze: Zu einer Schlüsselfrage von Emmanuel Levinas/Smrt kao granica: Uz ključno pitanje Emmanuela Levinasa

Professional Ethics, a Multidisciplinary Journal 6 (2):253-266 (2007)
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In contrast to idealistic denial and Heidegger’s absolutization of death Levinas tries to interpret death on the background of the ethical relation towards fellow men. The boundary which death presents to life he interprets as the experience of passivity of subject in front of the absolute otherness of death. The subject also experiences such passivity in ethical relation towards other people whose otherness and difference nevertheless invert into ethical non-indifference and responsibility of the subject. In this ethical relating Levinas finds the source of meaning, which is alienated from Being, and starting from which he tries to derive new meaning for his own death as well as for the death of my fellow man.Im Unterschied zur idealistischen Verneinung und zu HeideggersVerabsolutierung des Todes versucht Levinas den Tod vor dem Hintergrund der ethischen Beziehung zum Mitmenschen zu deuten. Er interpretiert die Grenze, die der Tod dem Leben setzt, als eine Erfahrung der Passivität des Subjekts angesichts der absoluten Fremdheit des Todes. Eine solche Passivität erfährt das Subjekt auch in der ethischen Beziehung zum anderen Menschen, dessen Alterität und Differenz jedoch in eine ethische N icht-Indifferenz und Verantwortung des Subjekts umschlagen. In dieser ethischen Beziehung findet Levinas den ursprünglichen Ort eines dem Sein fremden Sinngeschehens, von dem aus er sowohl dem eigenen Tod als auch dem meines Nächsten einen neuen Sinn zu erschließen versucht.U razlici spram idealističkog nijekanja i Heideggerova apsolutiziranja smrti Levinas pokušava tumačiti smrt na pozadini etičkog odnošenja spram bližnjeg. Granicu koju smrt postavlja životu on interpretira kao iskustvo pasivnosti subjekta glede apsolutne tuđosti smrti. Takvu pasivnost subjekt iskušava i u etičkom odnošenju spram drugih ljudi, čija se drugost i diferencija ipak preokreću u etičku neindiferentnost i odgovornost subjekta. U tom etičkom odnošenju Levinas nalazi izvorišno mjesto smisla, koji je tuđ bitku, a polazeći od kojeg on pokušava izvesti novi smisao, kako za vlastitu smrt tako i za smrt mojega bližnjega

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