Thinking the Event (eBook)

Francois Raffoul (Autor)

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2020
378 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04537-9 (ISBN)

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The author of The Origins of Responsibility presents ';a major contribution to philosophical scholarship on... the very idea of the event' (Edward S. Casey, author of The World on Edge). In Thinking the Event, continental philosopher Franois Raffoul explores the question of what constitutes an event as an event: not what happens or why it happens, but what ';happening' means. If it's true that nothing happens without a reason, as Leibniz famously posited, then does this principle of reason have a reason? Bringing together philosophical insights from Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Jean-Luc Marion, Raffoul shows how the event, in its disruptive unpredictability, always exceeds causality, subjectivity, and reason. He then goes on to examine the inappropriability of this ';pure event' and how this inappropriability may inform ethical and political considerations. In the wake of the exhaustion of traditional metaphysics, the notion of the event comes to the fore, with key implications for philosophy, ontology, ethics, and theories of selfhood. Raffoul's Thinking the Event is essential reading on this fascinating topic.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Continental Thought
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Schlagworte: Being • being and time • Causality • Democracy • Derrida • ethics • ethics of the event • Event • Hannah Arendt • Heidegger • Jean-Luc Nancy • Kant • Levinas • Marion • Nietzsche • Ontology • Phenomenology • Philosophy • the Event • The Other
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04537-1 / 0253045371
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04537-9 / 9780253045379