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The Origins of Responsibility (Studies in Continental Thought)

By François Raffoul

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0253354382, 9780253354389, 9780253221735
LCC
BJ1451 .R34 2010
Open Library ID
OL23833660M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4533046 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
361\361
Time added
2010-07-15 08:01:32

Description

François Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition.

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