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Figures of violence and modernity

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The philosophical work of Eric Weil (1904-1977) is one of the most important of the th century and one of the most modern, as it looks at what has emerged at the heart of modernity and shaken it to its foundations: extreme violence is tempted to say unthinkable. It is a question of understanding, therefore, thinking about the problem by recognising that violence and modernity speak in a number of ways. Thus, for example, while the assertion of subjectivity constitutes modernity, it is still necessary to distinguish the figures from it in order to be able to determine their relationship with violence and their place in modernity: subjectivity shifts from the feeling of God to his own scientist denial, from moral or ironic consciousness that is self-evident to the self-neglect of disinterested intelligence, from the torn personality in itself to its self-esteem in absolute terms, from the silent revolt to the angoissful feeling of fineness, from the enduring subject of reasonable action to the philosophical consciousness of his own willingness to act and understand. The various figures of violence and modernity can only be understood in the philosophical discourse that identifies them in their diversity and places them in relation to their own willingness to understand, but without resorting to a simplistic dualism which would simply oppose violence and its other; the philosophy is itself conscious of being based on a choice of reason which cannot be justified in absolute terms. Freedom figures only make sense in relation to each other, in the context of a dialogue that the philosopher is trying to establish. This compendium brings together nine studies on the same issue: the first two (Part 1) can be seen as an introduction to Eric Weil’s philosophy; the following three (Part 2) identify and compare determined figures of modernity, violence and philosophy, time and presence; three other studies (Part 3) relate to the weilian reading of Hegel and Kant; the last one suggests, as a conclusion, that Eric Weil’s philosopher can help us to steer us in the world that is both violent and reasonable today.

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