Original scientific paper

Agency and “Ethical Resistance”: Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas

Goran Gretić ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The author compares Hannah Arendt’s political thought and Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical theory which, at first sight, have not much in common, but which can nevertheless be compared productively. Their analyses of the distinctive features of the modern world and the human condition within it are compared at three levels: first, the author points to the problem of human agency in society, which should be free and just; second, he addresses the issue related to institutions, that should provide a suitable framework for human agency and warrant the stability of justice; and third, he seeks to explain the importance of power as non-verbal agency.

Keywords

ethics; agency; institutions; power; philosophy of Otherness

Hrčak ID:

29133

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/29133

Publication date:

1.2.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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