Decreation and the Ethical Bind : Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other

Cha, Yoon Sook

ISBN 10: 0823275256 / ISBN 13: 9780823275250

Edité par Modern Language Initiative, 2017

N° de réf. du vendeur 28760654-n

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.

À propos de l'auteur: Yoon Sook Cha received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Decreation and the Ethical Bind : Simone ...
Éditeur : Modern Language Initiative
Date d'édition : 2017
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : New