Murderous consent : on the accommodation of violent death

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Murderous consent : on the accommodation of violent death

Marc Crépon ; translated by Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi ; foreword by James Martel

(Perspectives in continental philosophy)

Fordham University Press, 2019

1st ed

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Consentement meurtrier

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Includes index

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Winner, 2002 French Translation Prize for Nonfiction Murderous Consent details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it's classically understood. Marc Crepon insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as separate spheres. We repeatedly resist the call to responsibility, as expressed by the appeal-by peoples across the world-for the care and attention that their vulnerability enjoins. But Crepon argues that this resistance is not ineluctable, and the book searches for ways that enable us to mitigate it, through rebellion, kindness, irony, critique, and shame. In the process, he engages with a range of writers, from Camus, Sartre, and Freud, to Stefan Zweig and Karl Kraus, to Kenzaburo Oe, Emmanuel Levinas and Judith Butler. The resulting exchange between philosophy and literature enables Crepon to delineate the contours of a possible/impossible ethicosmopolitics-an ethicosmopolitics to come. Pushing against the limits of liberal rationalism, Crepon calls for a more radical understanding of interpersonal responsibility. Not just a work of philosophy but an engagement with life as it's lived, Murderous Consent works to redefine our global obligations, articulating anew what humanitarianism demands and what an ethically grounded political resistance might mean.

Table of Contents

Foreword by James Martel | ix Introduction | 1 1 Justice | 17 2 Life | 46 3 Freedom | 75 4 Truth | 109 5 The World | 140 Conclusion | 173 Appendix. Friendship: A Trial by History | 181 Notes | 195 Index | 213

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  • NCID
    BC14835369
  • ISBN
    • 9780823283743
  • LCCN
    2019935377
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 216 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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