The Person in a War Situation: Approach to the Revelatory Potential of the Passive Subject

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  • Игорь Подпорин
Keywords: a war situation, the passive subject, the other, the subject’s types in a war situation, kenosis

Abstract

[In Russian]

The article is devoted to the designing of the passive subject’s potential in the long term of overcoming war, in particular, the war in Ukraine. Relying on R. Girard’s idea of understanding of war as a self-discrediting cyclic violence, and also on E. Levinas’ ontology of constituting the passive subject by means of a discretion of the other, the author allocates three types (registers) of subjectivity in a war situation: two registers of an active subject (‘hero’ and ‘victim’) and the register of a passive subject. These three types of the subject are derived from three types of attitude towards death in E. Levinas’ ontology and illustrated by comparing the main characters of N. Gogol’s novel “Taras Bulba” described in two different editions of the work. According to the author of the article, only the passive subject has the exposing undermining war potential through aspiration to a discretion of the radical other in a phase of kenosis. 

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Published
2016-11-30
How to Cite
Подпорин, И. (2016). The Person in a War Situation: Approach to the Revelatory Potential of the Passive Subject. Topos, (1-2), 196-213. Retrieved from https://journals.ehu.lt/index.php/topos/article/view/248
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THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF VIOLENCE AND DOMINATION