Per un messianismo dell'umano : la prospettiva di Emmanuel Levinas

The aim of this text is to join Emmanuel Levinas in considering, or reconsidering, the concept of messianism – an extremely old and controversial concept, but equally "timely" at the present time. Indeed, for both Levinas and her commentator, the messianism that must be envisaged is one that no longer saves through devotion or procuration and instead, for God yet without God, leads "toward a new humanity". In an unprecedented manner, this messianism no longer appeals to a Messiah who is yet to come. Instead, it calls on every human been to be "otherwise" human, perhaps "utopically" human; to be a man or woman who bears the entire weight of humanity at all times through having no choice but to take up the burden of responsibility for a single other man until his death, the death of the other. This is the hyperbole of a messianism of the human. [Publisher's text]