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The Martyr’S Desire: Levinas, Girard, And Infinite Responsibility, Joshua Alan Lawrence
The Martyr’S Desire: Levinas, Girard, And Infinite Responsibility, Joshua Alan Lawrence
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Perhaps the whole of human history could be summed up with one word: economy. The law of the home and the home of all law. Without fail, this situation results in a structured devotion that must decide what to do with desire. And the economic decision often follows a violent trajectory, most commonly described as sacrifice. Today, states will make efforts to conceal this underlying logic, but the insidious configurations of ‘real politik’ usually surface with a frightening intensity.
My project considers these problematic vestiges through Emmanuel Levinas’s reconfiguration of subjectivity. To address these bio-historical realities, my work highlights the …