Dupin, Hugo Mosneron <br/><br/>
Levinas, Europe and Human Rights 

 -  2025.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> This article examines the motifs that run through the nuanced critique by Emmanuel Levinas of the Enlightenment and its philosophical legacy. From the study of the sculptor Sosno’s process of obliterating statues, Levinas establishes a link between the mode of representation, which is the statue, and the concept of autonomy that lies at the foundation of our political modernity. Drawing on Jewish tradition, he challenges the notion that autonomy be the basis of human rights, and suggests a rethinking in relation to the notion of fraternity. The crisis that Europe goes through in the 20th century can then be analysed as the crisis of a civilisation that does not completely spell out the violent political implications of its rationalism and the contradiction that undermines its understanding of peace.