Meanders of Vilém Flusser’s Ethics of Alterity
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The name of Vilém Flusser is not usually associated with the philosophy of ethics, as it happens, for instance,
with the name of Emmanuel Levinas – not to drift too far beyond this generation. But Flusser is a fully-fledged
ethical thinker, and should be inscribed in this tradition. The goal here is to stretch the first main cable of the
bridge for this integration, by outlining some intricacies of a typically Flusserian ethics of alterity; specifically,
it considers the central place the ideas of transcension and affective responsibility play in the thought of the
philosopher. In the process, it will be revealed that all of this leads Flusser curiously back to Hegel; this return
to Hegel indicates, among other things, that any attempt to philosophize about the experience of otherness
seems to always give the Swabian philosopher the last word.
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