Abstract

AGUIRRE GARCIA, Juan Carlos  and  JARAMILLO ECHEVERRI, Luis Guillermo. Enigma and Suffering: Beyond Remembering. Folios [online]. 2022, n.55, pp.3-15.  Epub July 22, 2022. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.55-12447.

This reflection article explores the tension between suffering as an enigmatic event and its possibility of remembrance. The strategy used for this begins with two metaphors that allow us to establish the difference between two versions of the enigma: a weak or comprehensive version of suffering, and a strong or radical version of it. Subsequently, based on some works by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, the radical version of the enigma is considered in confrontation with the attempt to reduce suffering to cognitive schemes, assimilating it to a stereotyped understanding. Finally, it wonders about the meaning of recalling suffering, adducing some notes regarding its uselessness, but preserving its character of disturbance, interruption, and excess. The result of the article will consist of a contribution to the attempts to do justice to the victims against the totalization of the system that makes them characters under the mask of representation.

Keywords : social and human sciences; human communication; memory.

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