TRANSCENDENCIJA I ZLO
TRANSCENDENCE AND EVIL

Summary/Abstract: The transcendence which shines in the face of the other is an otherness that cannot be integrated or gathered in a totality. It is a transcendence my knowledge is not absorbing. The face puts in question the self-sufficiency of my self-identity, it obliges to immense responsibility towards the other. If I am in my own suffering touched by the evil from which the other is suffering, if it makes a direct interpellation, call to me, challenging myself in my rest-in-myself and my conatus essendi as well, could it be then that here in the evil, in its ‘intention’ whose addressee I am in my own evil, consist an outbreak of good: theophany? In the appearing of evil, in its originary phenomenality, in its quality, a mode is announced, a manner: the not-being-able-to-find-a-place, the refusal of any accommodation with, a counter-nature, the deranging and foreign in itself. And in this sense transcendence! (Of God Who Comes to Mind, Part 2, Chapter 5.)

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