Decreation and the Ethical Bind : Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other / Yoon Sook Cha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cha, Yoon Sook, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weil, Simone, 1909-1943.

Other (Philosophy).

Self.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Simone Weil’s philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other’s self-affirmation and one’s own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing. The other’s claims upon the self—which induce unfinished obligation, unmet sleep, hunger—drive the tensions that sustain the scene of ethical relationality at the heart of this book.Decreation and the Ethical Bind is a study in decreative ethics in which self-dispossession conditions responsiveness to a demand to preserve the other from harm. In examining themes of obligation, vulnerability, and the force of weak speech that run from Levinas to Butler, the book situates Weil within a continental tradition of literary theory in which writing and speech articulate ethical appeal and the vexations of response. It elaborates a form of ethics that is not grounded in subjective agency and narrative coherence but one that is inscribed at the site of the self’s depersonalization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Abbreviations and Translations Used

Preface

Introduction

1. The Vulnerability of Precious Things: “La Personne et le sacré”

2. Uncommon Measure: “L’Iliade ou le poème de la force”

3. Stillness and the Bond of Love: Venise sauvée

4. Unfinished Obligation: Venise sauvée and La Folie du jour

5. The Extravagant Demand of Asking Nothing: Destitution and Generosity in “Autobiographie spirituelle” and La Connaissance surnaturelle

6. Empty Petitions: The Last Letters of Simone Weil

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

9780823277087

0823277089

9780823275281

0823275280

9780823275274

0823275272

OCLC:

985800388