Textos sobre violencia: de lo impuro. (Contaminaciones, equívocos, temblores)

• Thomas Clément Mercier ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

     Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

     Santiago, Chile

     
• Localización: Oxímora: revista internacional de ética y política, ISSN-e 2014-7708, Nº. 17, 2020, págs. 1-25
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.1344/oxi.2020.i17.31566
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Texts on Violence: Of the Impure (Contaminations, Equivocations, Trembling)
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  • español

    Este artículo interroga cierta escena filosófica –una que se constituye a través de la posición de lo que Jacques Derrida llama “la instancia ética de la violencia”. En el curso del ensayo, analizo esta escena cuasi-jurídica a través de las lecturas de Aristóteles, Walter Benjamin y Giorgio Agamben, entre otros. La escena, construida sobre textos sobre textos sobre violencia, exige una lógica de la pureza; es recelosa de conta-minaciones y equívocos. Y sin embargo, se alimenta de ellos. Analizando las implicaciones del texto, la escritura y la huella para el discurso filosófico sobre la violencia, sigo a Derrida “solo para ver” que puede hacer temblar esta escena.

  • English

    This article interrogates a certain philosophical scene – one which constitutes itself through the position of what Jacques Derrida calls “the ethical instance of violence.” In the course of the essay, I analyze this quasi-juridical scene through readings of Aristotle, Walter Benjamin, and Giorgio Agamben among others. The scene, built on texts on texts on violence, demands a logic of purity; it is wary of contaminations and equivocations. And yet it thrives on them. In analyzing the implications of text, writing, and trace for the philosophical discourse on violence, I follow Derrida “just to see” what could make the scene tremble.

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