La inscripción de la violencia y la voz de la víctima. Un replanteamiento del problema de la violencia desde Judith Shklar y Axel Honneth

Abstract

There is a clear political and ethical efficacy in the fact of naming violence and referring it to someone to blame. But when the significant of ‘violence’ is imposed, takes place an act of symbolical violence, and the circle of violence goes on. The same thing happens, when the symbolical order tries to regulate violence, and requires a sacred violence or the force of law to stop the mimetic violence. As a matter of fact, nowadays a mediated form of extreme mimetic violence is extending across the society of spectacle, and formal justice cannot avoid it by means of more legal sanctions. In this article, another discourse on violence is proposed; one that is not founded on naming the violent, but takes care of the victim’s voice, in order to widen civic responsibility towards other’s damage and injury.