Origins of Responsibility

Name: Origins of Responsibility
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ISBN: 9780253221735

ISBN-10: 0253221730

ISBN-13: 9780253221735

Edition: 2010

Authors: Franï¿½ois Raffoul, Franï¿½ois Raffoul

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François 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…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction the Origins of Responsibility



Aristotle: Responsibility as Voluntariness



Kant: Responsibility as Spontaneity of the Subject



Nietzsche's Deconstruction of Accountability



Satre: Hyperbolic Responsibility



Levinas's Reversal of Responsibility



Heidegger's Originary Ethics



Heidegger: The Ontological Origins of Responsibility



Derrida: The Impossible Origins of Responsibility


Conclusion The Future of Responsibility


Notes


Index