@article{ART002497571},
author={Yoon, Hee Oyck},
title={Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2019},
volume={32},
number={2},
pages={153-177}
TY - JOUR
AU - Yoon, Hee Oyck
TI - Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2019
VL - 32
IS - 2
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 153
EP - 177
SN - 1226-3397
AB - Incident at Vichy embodies Miller’s most critical and analytic response to Nazi’s fascism and the Holocaust caused by Hitler’s madness. It dramatizes the Nazi’s violence against Jews who have been arrested and drawn into detention camps with none of them sure why and finally slaughtered in gas chambers. Miller asks us to admit our complicity with evil or the banality of evil and awakens our forgetfulness of the other and responsibility for the other.
In this play Miller depicts the abandonment of all moral and social responsibility to Nazism which acknowledges no obligation beyond its own absolute authority. Miller brings us to the age of Auschwitz in which the totalitarian terror wipes out all otherness by violence, torture, and murder.
This thesis aims to delve into the primary thrust of Miller's ethics through Levinas’s notions: totalitarianism, the forgetfulness of the other, the face of the other, etc. It is no exaggeration to assert that Miller has inseminated the notions of Levinasian philosophy into this play, for through his confrontation with Nazi’s formidable evil Miller has felt much drawn to Levinas’s distinctive ethics of otherness. Von Berg’s ethics created by Miller is an undeniable proof that his ethics is closely intertwined with Levinasian philosophy of the forgetfulness of the other and the responsibility for others. This play can be understood more deeply than any other play in terms of Levinas’s philosophy of otherness.
KW - totalitarianism;Levinasian philosophy;forgetfulness of the other;the face of the Other;responsibility and substitution
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Yoon, Hee Oyck. (2019). Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness. Journal of Modern English Drama, 32(2), 153-177.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. 2019, "Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.32, no.2 pp.153-177.
Yoon, Hee Oyck "Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness" Journal of Modern English Drama 32.2 pp.153-177 (2019) : 153.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness. 2019; 32(2), 153-177.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. "Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness" Journal of Modern English Drama 32, no.2 (2019) : 153-177.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness. Journal of Modern English Drama, 32(2), 153-177.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2019; 32(2) 153-177.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness. 2019; 32(2), 153-177.
Yoon, Hee Oyck. "Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy: The Violence of Totalitarianism and the Forgetting of the Other through Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophy of Otherness" Journal of Modern English Drama 32, no.2 (2019) : 153-177.
