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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480118503321

Autore

Crépon Marc

Titolo

Murderous Consent : On the Accommodation of Violent Death / / Marc Crépon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-8232-8617-7

0-8232-8376-3

0-8232-8377-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Collana

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Altri autori (Persone)

LeviJacob

LoriauxMichael

MartelJames

Disciplina

303.6

Soggetti

Political ethics

Violence - Moral and ethical aspects

Violence - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Justice -- 2. Life -- 3. Freedom -- 4. Truth -- 5. The World -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Friendship: A Trial by History -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

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 Crépon 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 Crépon 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 Crépon to delineate the contours of a possible/impossible ethicosmopolitics—an ethicosmopolitics to come. Pushing against the limits of liberal rationalism, Crépon 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.