Abstract
AbstractThis article examines how ethics are formed for an Iranian paraplegic, a veteran of the 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War, through a mode of listening that is committed to receiving the dead other. I draw on relational ethics to express how an ethical subject is shaped through the other, even in the other's absence. The dead other places a demand on the self, creating the foundation of a response and responsibility for the deceased. Thus, a unique relationship is developed that is beyond time, a responsiveness through which the living can attend to the dead. This demand by the dead other creates a responsibility for the living that goes beyond the finite temporality of a lifespan. Listening becomes a way of existing face‐to‐face with a nonresponsive other and, at the same time, of seeking to be responsible toward the dead other.
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