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Origins Of Responsibility
Francois Raffoul
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Description for Origins Of Responsibility
Paperback. Identifies the decisive moments in the development of the concept of responsibility, retrieves its origins, and explores the reflections on it. This book states that 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. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 470.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253221735
SKU
V9780253221735
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About Francois Raffoul
François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is author of Heidegger and the Subject and is translator (with Andrew Mitchell) of Martin Heidegger's Four Seminars (IUP, 2003).
Reviews for Origins Of Responsibility
Raffoul provides a rich genealogy of concepts of responsibility from thinkers in the Continental tradition. . . . Recommended.
Choice
Raffoul is very persuasive in arguing . . . that Sartre, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida's philosophies, even when apparently involved in other not immediately ethical pursuits – existentialism, fundamental ontology, metaphysics,deconstruction – contain a fundamentally ethical concern. . . . [A] very fine book.Nov. 2014
Derrida Today
Raffoul displays throughout considerable skills of reading and exegesis, and he has an important story to tell about the history of responsibility. . . . There is a great deal to admire in this book and one can only look forward to [his] future work.
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Choice
Raffoul is very persuasive in arguing . . . that Sartre, Heidegger, Levinas, and Derrida's philosophies, even when apparently involved in other not immediately ethical pursuits – existentialism, fundamental ontology, metaphysics,deconstruction – contain a fundamentally ethical concern. . . . [A] very fine book.Nov. 2014
Derrida Today
Raffoul displays throughout considerable skills of reading and exegesis, and he has an important story to tell about the history of responsibility. . . . There is a great deal to admire in this book and one can only look forward to [his] future work.
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews