Thinking the Event
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2020
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04536-2 (ISBN)
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04536-2 (ISBN)
What happens when something happens? If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul deconstructs what happens when something happens, the very happening.
What happens when something happens? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul undertakes a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes an event as event, its very eventfulness: not what happens or why it happens, but that it happens, and what "happening" means. If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? For Raffoul, the event always breaks the demands of rational thought. Bringing together philosophical insights from Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, and Marion, Raffoul shows how the event, in its disruptive unpredictability, always exceeds causality, subjectivity, and reason. It is that "pure event," each time happening outside or without reason, which remains to be thought, and which is the focus of this work. In the final movement of the book, Raffoul takes on questions about the inappropriability of the event and the implications this carries for ethical and political considerations when thinking the event. In the wake of the exhaustion of traditional metaphysics, the notion of the event comes to the fore in an unprecedented way, with key implications for philosophy, ontology, ethics, and theories of selfhood.
What happens when something happens? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul undertakes a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes an event as event, its very eventfulness: not what happens or why it happens, but that it happens, and what "happening" means. If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? For Raffoul, the event always breaks the demands of rational thought. Bringing together philosophical insights from Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, and Marion, Raffoul shows how the event, in its disruptive unpredictability, always exceeds causality, subjectivity, and reason. It is that "pure event," each time happening outside or without reason, which remains to be thought, and which is the focus of this work. In the final movement of the book, Raffoul takes on questions about the inappropriability of the event and the implications this carries for ethical and political considerations when thinking the event. In the wake of the exhaustion of traditional metaphysics, the notion of the event comes to the fore in an unprecedented way, with key implications for philosophy, ontology, ethics, and theories of selfhood.
François Raffoul is Professor of Philosophy and French Studies at Louisiana State University. He is author of The Origins of Responsibility and translator (with David Pettigrew) of Dominique Janicaud's Heidegger in France.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Event Outside of Thought
2. The Event without Ground
3. Event and Phenomenology
4. Things as Events
5. Historical Happening and the Motion of Life
6. The Event of Being
7. Event, World, Democracy
8. The Secret of the Event
Conclusion: The Ethics of the Event
Bibliography
Erscheinungsdatum | 28.04.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Continental Thought |
Verlagsort | Bloomington, IN |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 553 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
ISBN-10 | 0-253-04536-3 / 0253045363 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-04536-2 / 9780253045362 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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