The political Lévinas according to Abensour

Authors

  • Borja Castro Serrano Universidad Andrés Bello

Abstract

This article aims to show Miguel Abensour's political and secular interpretation of Levinas reading when analyzing the meaning of the levinasian conceptual axis of responsibilityfor- the-other and its ethical and political ties. In that way, we can rediscover the irreducibility of the political as a dimension that requires the human, all under the motto of the extravagant hypothesis. The human -in the light of Levinas and where Abensour anchors- installs its own irreducibility that renews the political and lets a critical political philosophy -that wants to consider the state and justice in a different manner- emerge.

Keywords:

Lévinas, Abensour, critic politics, State, justice