“Kaddish Yatom”: “Kaddish Yatom”
Is there still time for history? What does it mean to curate the past when the future is in doubt? Staring down the cataclysmic effects of climate change, it can seem “out of time” to reckon with the past, especially given the possibility that there will soon be no one left to read what we write. In...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros (UNIMONTES) |
| Repositorio: | Caminhos da História (Montes Claros. Online) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.periodicos.unimontes.br:article/5440 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.periodicos.unimontes.br/index.php/caminhosdahistoria/article/view/5440 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Emmanuel Levinas História Temporalidade Futuro History Temporality Future Historia Temporalidad |
| Sumario: | Is there still time for history? What does it mean to curate the past when the future is in doubt? Staring down the cataclysmic effects of climate change, it can seem “out of time” to reckon with the past, especially given the possibility that there will soon be no one left to read what we write. In the present essay, I begin with Emmanuel Levinas’s 1934 essay on “the philosophy of Hitlerism” in an effort to explore what it means to engage in history (or philosophy) when the end seems imminent. As with the Shoah, I argue, the work of the historian consists wholly of paying a debt to the fallen, whatever the future might hold. Turning to the fifteenth-century discovery and colonization of Madeira, I conclude that non-human Others likewise exact this debt. |
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