Approaching the violence question from within the framework of _SZ_,
wouldn't it tie into the flight away from death, the attempted
suppression on the part of Dasein from what kills it (and simultaneously
makes it possible)? Isn't violence the attempt to suppress a perceived
evil, something seen as dangerous to the integrity of Dasein's projects?
Levinas (whom I frankly haven't read very much of) seems to equate
the suppression of the Other -- here seen as another person -- with
evil. In a way, isn't the reverse the case, that evil is unintelligibility
is meaninglessness is otherness, and that the attempted eradication
of otherness is -- from the point of view of the eradicating subject
(to use s-o terminology for the time being) -- the attempted eradication
of evil?
Which would imply that authentic Dasein must accept the otherness
pervading it, ultimately death.
Christopher Doss
Just a lowly graduate student
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