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Thinking the Event (Hardcover)
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Thinking the Event (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Continental Thought
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What happens when something happens? In Thinking the Event, senior
continental philosophy scholar Francois 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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