Thinking the event

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"What happens when something happens? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul undertakes a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes an event as event, its very eventfulness: not what happens or why it happens, but that it happens, and what "happening" means. If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? For Raffoul, the event always breaks the demands of rational thought. Bringing t…

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Full title :Thinking the event / François Raffoul.

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"What happens when something happens? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul undertakes a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes an event as event, its very eventfulness: not what happens or why it happens, but that it happens, and what "happening" means. If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? For Raffoul, the event always breaks the demands of rational thought. Bringing together philosophical insights from Heidegger, Derrida, Nancy, and Marion, Raffoul shows how the event, in its disruptive unpredictability, always exceeds causality, subjectivity, and reason. It is that "pure event," each time happening outside or without reason, which remains to be thought, and which is the focus of this work. In the final movement of the book, Raffoul takes on questions about the inappropriability of the event and the implications this carries for ethical and political considerations when thinking the event. In the wake of the exhaustion of traditional metaphysics, the notion of the event comes to the fore in an unprecedented way, with key implications for philosophy, ontology, ethics, and theories of selfhood"--

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Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
Place of Publication:Bloomington, Indiana
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

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Description:1 online resource (ix, 363 pages)

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ISBN:0253045371, 9780253045379, 025304538X, 9780253045386
oclc:on1135909635
LC Classification:B105.E7
Dewey Decimal:111

The event outside of thought -- The event without reason -- Event and phenomenology -- Things as events -- Historical happening and the motion of life -- The event of being -- Event, world, democracy -- The secret of the event -- Conclusion: The ethics of the event.