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| 0680-5064-01 | Ethical Responsibility for Reconciliation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
Ethical Responsibility for Reconciliation
Is there a responsibility to promote reconciliation (“living next to each other”), and is this responsibility pragmatic, utilitarian, even capitalist – or does it have an ethical aspect? And if so – where does it arise from? Alongside philosophical texts (by Levinas, on forgiveness; Derrida, on forgiveness and on responsibility; Butler, on life worth living; Fraser, on recognition; Agamben, on responsibility), modes of representation of reconciliation and of responsibility in literature, cinema, and visual culture will focus on ethical responsibility as choice or as necessity when the politics of the gaze determine the frame of reference.
Is there a responsibility to promote reconciliation (“living next to each other”), and is this responsibility pragmatic, utilitarian, even capitalist – or does it have an ethical aspect? And if so – where does it arise from? Alongside philosophical texts (by Levinas, on forgiveness; Derrida, on forgiveness and on responsibility; Butler, on life worth living; Fraser, on recognition; Agamben, on responsibility), modes of representation of reconciliation and of responsibility in literature, cinema, and visual culture will focus on ethical responsibility as choice or as necessity when the politics of the gaze determine the frame of reference.