Toward a Minor identity. Philosophical-ethical intervention against the high identities of the identitarian movement
2018
Abstract
The concept of identity that the identitarian movement has committed it to suffers from its own weight. For them the human individual is only a carrier from identity-founding collective identities.
With the ethics of alterity from Emmanuel Levinas this lecture tries to give a plea for a Minor identity. For Levinas, Identity is happening before all historic, cultural and ethnical ascriptions.
Instead identity is the lived ego-ism of the in-dividual in its own bodily centricity, it is where the self is identitcal with itself - the enjoyment. In the Levinasian perspective, identity is something which must be cultured, but something that one has.