Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria

Anno 24 N. 2 (2016): Fascicolo 2/2016
Articles

“Un po’ troppo incorruttibile”: Ecologia, responsabilità e un’idea di trascendenza

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  • Serenella Iovino

Pubblicato 12/10/2016

Parole chiave

  • Environmental humanities,
  • ethics,
  • ecology,
  • transcendence,
  • Hans Jonas,
  • Primo Levi
    • ...Più
    Meno

Come citare

Iovino, S. . (2016). “Un po’ troppo incorruttibile”: Ecologia, responsabilità e un’idea di trascendenza. Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 24(2), 21–34. Recuperato da https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/210
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Abstract

Moving from a passage of Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table in which God is defined as a “master of polymerization” who does not like “incorruptible things”, this essay examines the topics of environmental responsibility and transcendence in relation to ecology. Particular attention is devoted to H. Jonas’s thought and to the bond between his ethics in Das Prinzip Verantwortung
(1979) and his idea of God’s impotence in Der Gottesbegriff nach Auschwitz (1987).
In conclusion, the essay considers the implications of these concepts and their literary illustration within the environmental humanities, especially in relation to environmental justice (e.g. Nixon’s slow violence) and object-oriented-ontology (Morton’s hyperobjects).

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