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Subject(s)

• Political ethics [Browse]
• Violence—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Violence—Political aspects [Browse]

Related name

• Levi, Jacob [Browse]
• Loriaux, Michael [Browse]
• Martel, James [Browse]

Series

• Perspectives in continental philosophy. [More in this series]
• Fordham scholarship online. [More in this series]
• Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

Summary note

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.

Notes

• Translated from the French.
• This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• 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

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ISBN

• 0-8232-8617-7
• 0-8232-8376-3
• 0-8232-8377-1

OCLC

1090540097

Doi

• 10.1515/9780823283774

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