In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality
This article puts forward a historical and philosophical critique of the concept of toleration that questions it as an ultimate achievement and instead interrogates its limitations and seeks ways in which it may point to its own supercession in more positive and durable social bonds. The violence wh...
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| description | This article puts forward a historical and philosophical critique of the concept of toleration that questions it as an ultimate achievement and instead interrogates its limitations and seeks ways in which it may point to its own supercession in more positive and durable social bonds. The violence which toleration historically aimed at containing remains a constant in present-day recourses to its relevancy, while the negative valuations of human interrelations that underlie such assessments are passed over. Reflections on genocide through the thought of Levinas prove the primal nature of the law of hospitality, while, following Aristotle, friendship, rather than marriage, safeguards society from violent conflict. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-59ca29ae5e17435d94cb2fc4560e13e42022-12-21T19:41:07ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Arts & Humanities2331-19832015-12-012110.1080/23311983.2015.10849071084907In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitalityEvy Varsamopoulou0University of CyprusThis article puts forward a historical and philosophical critique of the concept of toleration that questions it as an ultimate achievement and instead interrogates its limitations and seeks ways in which it may point to its own supercession in more positive and durable social bonds. The violence which toleration historically aimed at containing remains a constant in present-day recourses to its relevancy, while the negative valuations of human interrelations that underlie such assessments are passed over. Reflections on genocide through the thought of Levinas prove the primal nature of the law of hospitality, while, following Aristotle, friendship, rather than marriage, safeguards society from violent conflict.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2015.1084907tolerationrecognitionviolencehospitalitycosmopolitanismfriendship |
| spellingShingle | Evy Varsamopoulou In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality Cogent Arts & Humanities toleration recognition violence hospitality cosmopolitanism friendship |
| title | In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality |
| title_full | In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality |
| title_fullStr | In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality |
| title_full_unstemmed | In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality |
| title_short | In search of the social: Rethinking toleration, remembering hospitality |
| title_sort | in search of the social rethinking toleration remembering hospitality |
| topic | toleration recognition violence hospitality cosmopolitanism friendship |
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