Kenosis and Nature. Critical notes on Vattimo’s and Bubbio’s notion of kenotic sacrifice (original) (raw)

Comparative and Continental Philosophy, vol. 14, issue 1, 2022

Abstract

In this paper I focus on Gianni Vattimo’s and Paolo Diego Bubbio’s notion of kenosis showing that 1) they both understand kenotic sacrifice in a strongly hermeneutical sense, and connect it with a perspectival account of truth and knowledge; 2) they both emphasize that kenotic sacrifice has a fundamentally ethical aspect; and 3) they both maintain that kenotic sacrifice is an ‘un-natural’ act that is implied in the withdrawal of one’s self. However, I intend to show that nature can be understood positively through the notion of kenosis, and that it is possible to envisage an ethical theory that concretely tackles the self-proclaimed centrality of human agency within nature, therefore implementing an effective and non-anthropocentric form of kenotic sacrifice. In this sense, I conclude by arguing that kenotic sacrifice can primarily be seen as an act of making room for other ways of being.

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