Abstract

MESSINA, AÏCHA LIVIANA. Peace as First language Peace and Politics with E. Lévinas. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2012, vol.61, n.150, pp.145-167. ISSN 0120-0062.

It could be possible to think that when E. Lévinas states that peace is "the first event of the encounter" and that it is a "first language", he gives up his critical attitude in favor of a naive faith in human beings, thus forgetting the unlimited violence that characterizes human relations.  Everything changes, however, when one understands that the "first event" arises from anarchy, that it is not fixed, and that it allows for no conciliation.   The article analyzes how, after Kant's Perpetual Peace, Lévinas provides a renovated meaning of peace. Likewise, it inquires into the critical attitude that makes it possible to think peace without falling into the illusions of morality, and what significance would a peace not actualized in institutions might have.

Keywords : E. Lévinas; I. Kant; war; peace; politics.

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