Murderous consent : on the accommodation of violent death / Marc Crépon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crépon, Marc, Author.

Contributor:

Levi, Jacob

Loriaux, Michael

Martel, James

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Fordham scholarship online.

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Standardized Title:

Consentement meurtrier. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Political ethics.

Violence--Moral and ethical aspects.

Violence.

Violence--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it’s classically understood. Marc Crépon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as separate spheres. We repeatedly resist the call to responsibility, as expressed by the appeal—by peoples across the world—for the care and attention that their vulnerability enjoins. But Crépon argues that this resistance is not ineluctable, and the book searches for ways that enable us to mitigate it, through rebellion, kindness, irony, critique, and shame. In the process, he engages with a range of writers, from Camus, Sartre, and Freud, to Stefan Zweig and Karl Kraus, to Kenzaburo Oe, Emmanuel Levinas and Judith Butler. The resulting exchange between philosophy and literature enables Crépon to delineate the contours of a possible/impossible ethicosmopolitics—an ethicosmopolitics to come. Pushing against the limits of liberal rationalism, Crépon calls for a more radical understanding of interpersonal responsibility. Not just a work of philosophy but an engagement with life as it’s lived, Murderous Consent works to redefine our global obligations, articulating anew what humanitarianism demands and what an ethically grounded political resistance might mean.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Justice

2. Life

3. Freedom

4. Truth

5. The World

Conclusion

Appendix. Friendship: A Trial by History

Notes

Index

About the Authors

Notes:

Translated from the French.

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823286171

0823286177

9780823283767

0823283763

9780823283774

0823283771

OCLC:

1090540097