Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2006
Abstract
The article analyses relationship "I" - "the other"; or rather in plural "I" - "the others", "I" - "the world" in Čapek´s trilogy Hordubal - Meteor ? The Ordinary Life. It shows that for Čapek, similarly as later for Levinas, it is impossible to speak of identity as of something an individual has from within oneself and for oneself.
In the conclusion the author demonstrates that Čapek´s radicality growing from his humanism largely overlaps with Levinas´s radicality that grows from criticism of humanism´s inadequacy.