Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other - Couverture rigide

Cha, Yoon Sook

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0823275256 ISBN 13 : 9780823275250

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Yoon Sook Cha received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823275256
• ISBN 13: 9780823275250
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
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