Beyond guilt and responsibility – The social phenomenology of late modern debt experience
Thesis Eleven: Critical Theory and Historical Sociology
Published online on May 16, 2026
Abstract
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The article describes the late modern experience of debt by combining phenomenological and social theoretical analyses. From Nietzsche's perspective, the lived experience of indebtedness is explained by guilt. From the perspectives of Levinas and Derrida, ...
The article describes the late modern experience of debt by combining phenomenological and social theoretical analyses. From Nietzsche's perspective, the lived experience of indebtedness is explained by guilt. From the perspectives of Levinas and Derrida, ...