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On Racism: Who is my neighbour?

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On Racism: Who is my neighbour?

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ByRichard J. Alapack
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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
Imprint Routledge
Pages 9
eBook ISBN 9780429480362

ABSTRACT

Racism is typically articulated, in rational discourse, as mental-spiritual-religious disdain or disgust. Academics and intellectuals prefer to reduce the matter to “ideological” clashes. Distinction is temporality’s confusing element which marks every man as different, but neighbour is eternity’s mark—on every man”. From psycho-medical sciences, addicted to technology, the human touch is missing. All theological-philosophical-psychological-sociological-biological arguments pile their ideological-conceptual malarkey on top of the bodily disgust and dread of touch. The Holocaust is so dreadful that there are almost as many contemporary “humans” who want to deny it even happened as there are those who want to etch it permanently in memory. Although Fredrick Nietzsche concurs with Charles Darwin that the idea of the human as pure spirit is bankrupt, he insists that evolving us from the animal is of little consequence concerning the future of mankind. Nietzsche writes that it is painfully embarrassing—a laughingstock—to compare the human to the ape as it is to compare the “overman” to man.

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