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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   A NEW POSSIBILITY OF LIFE: THE EXPERIENCE OF POWERLESSNESS AS A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF THE WORST.

Authors:  LEONARD LAWLOR.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  

This essay is part of an attempt to determine a new mode of existence, an ethics, for humans. It consists in reversing the idea of the worst, which is unconditional “impassage”: “don’t let anyone in; don’t let anyone out!” As a reversal, the new mode of existence turns us into friends of passage, a people who love the world so much that they will let everyone without exception enter and let everyone without exception exit. They say, “Let’s tear down all the wall and open all the doors!” The reversal comes about by focusing on the transcendental experience of powerlessness.

Keywords: life; phenomenology; Bergsonism; globalization; Derrida; Deleuze; friendship.

 
         
     
         
         
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