Heidegger’s Phenomenological Concept of Violence

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ID21395062
AuthorsRemus Breazu (0000-0003-1741-5408, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume60
Issue4
Pages494-517
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/sjp.12448
OpenAlexW3217793722
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited42

This article accounts for Heidegger’s phenomenological concept of violence from the period of Being and Time . Violence is relevant for Heidegger in two different contexts: (i) methodological, where we speak of hermeneutic violence, and (ii) thematic, where we should speak of existential violence. The former is grounded in the latter. In the first part of the article, I analyze hermeneutic violence, showing that this concept is ambiguous, and one has to distinguish between two different meanings of it. In the second part of the article, I show that at the core of the original sense lies the existential violence of bursting out of senselessness. In the final part, I contextualize Heidegger’s concept in light of the contemporary phenomenological developments of the phenomenon of violence, showing that existential violence is constitutive and has the peculiar character of being at the same time sense‐destroying and sense‐making

Character (mathematics) · Epistemology · Existentialism · Hermeneutics · Phenomenology (philosophy) · Phenomenon · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology

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