Ethics in contemporary families: reflections on radical alterity based on the film Boyhood

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v13i1p255-278

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Ethics, family, contemporaneity, film analysis, Boyhood

Abstract

This article investigates ethics in contemporary families based on the ideas of Emmanuel Lévinas and on the analysis of the film Boyhood (2014). It presents the changes experienced in contemporary societies as a problem, especially regarding trustfulness, with changes in the experiences of time and space and in the perspective of life administration. The film Boyhood allows visualizing moments of reproduction of social schemes usually accepted by the families, as well as moments of challenge of these schemes, showing a ethical sense as advocated by Lévinas.

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Author Biographies

  • Caio Monteiro Silva, Universidade Federal do Ceará

    Doctorate from the Postgraduate Program in Psychology at Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC).

  • José Célio Freire, Universidade Federal do Ceará

    Professor at Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Department of Psychology and Postgraduate Program in Psychology.

  • Marcio Acselrad, Universidade de Fortaleza

    Associate Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Psychology at Unifor and in Postgraduate Program in Communication at UFC.  Professor at Universidade de Fortaleza.

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Published

2019-04-30

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

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How to Cite

Silva, C. M., Freire, J. C., & Acselrad, M. (2019). Ethics in contemporary families: reflections on radical alterity based on the film Boyhood. MATRIZes, 13(1), 255-278. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v13i1p255-278