“Are there not, somewhere in the world, wars and carnage which result from these advatages? (of the West) Without us others, inhabitants of our capitals – capitals certainly without equality, but protected and plentiful – without us others having wanted to harm anyone? Does not the avenger/or the redemer of blood ‘with heated heart’ lurk around us, in the form of people’s anger, of the spirit of revolt or even of deliquency in our suburbs, the result of the social imbalance in which we are placed?” (Levinas, Cities of Refuge, Beyond the Verse, 40)
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