The origins of responsibility / Francois Raffoul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raffoul, François, 1960-

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Responsibility.

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 341 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

FranÃois 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.

Contents:

The origins of responsibility

Aristotle : responsibility as voluntariness

Kant : responsibility as spontaneity of the subject

Nietzsche's deconstruction of accountability

Sartre : hyperbolic responsibility

Levinas's reversal of responsibility

Heidegger's originary ethics

Heidegger : the ontological origins of responsibility

Derrida : the impossible origins of responsibility

The future of responsibility.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-55510-3

9786612555107

0-253-00422-5

OCLC:

613205658