- Title
- 'Self-other' or 'other-self-other'? A conversation between Bonhoeffer and Levinas on vulnerability
- Creator
- Fleming, Daniel; Lovat, Terence
- Relation
- The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Australasian Journal of Bonhoeffer Studies Vol. 1, Issue 1, p. 133-149
- Publisher
- ATF Theology
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The article focuses on the understanding of vulnerability that is found in the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Emmanuel Levinas. For Bonhoeffer, vulnerability is best understood as a form of ‘vulnerable discipleship’, that is, a choosing to be vulnerable for the other which aligns with his understanding of costly grace.For Levinas, vulnerability is primarily concerned with the vulnerability of the other person and, later in his thought, the vulnerability of the subject who is responsible for the other person. In exploring the grounds for possible conversation between these two thinkers, we argue that Levinas has potential to offer a philosophical strengthening of the notion of ‘vulnerable discipleship’ gleaned from Bonhoeffer which reveals: a) the condition of its possibility in the other-self-other relationship; and, b) that the decision to be vulnerable for the other returns the human person (for Bonhoeffer, Christian) to the state and status for which they were created.
- Subject
- vulnerability; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Emmanuel Levinas
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340749
- Identifier
- uon:28566
- Identifier
- ISSN:2202-9168
- Language
- eng
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