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What happens when something happens? If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul deconstructs what happens when something happens, the very happening.



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Raffoul's new book is a major contribution toward understanding post-Kantian Continental philosophy's effort to think about the causality of being beyond the principle of sufficient reason, to consider whether human encounter with the world might not entail something unassimilable to conceptual reason, something secret, traumatic, disruptive, haunting, and yet fundamental to the existence of consciousness.

-- N. Lukacher, emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago * Choice *

Table of Contents

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments


Introduction


1. The Event Outside of Thought


2. The Event without Ground


3. Event and Phenomenology


4. Things as Events


5. Historical Happening and the Motion of Life


6. The Event of Being


7. Event, World, Democracy


8. The Secret of the Event


Conclusion: The Ethics of the Event


Bibliography

Thinking the Event

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 5 May 2020
      ISBN-13 9780253045362
      978-0253045362
      ISBN-10 0253045363

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      What happens when something happens? If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar François Raffoul deconstructs what happens when something happens, the very happening.



      Trade Review

      Raffoul's new book is a major contribution toward understanding post-Kantian Continental philosophy's effort to think about the causality of being beyond the principle of sufficient reason, to consider whether human encounter with the world might not entail something unassimilable to conceptual reason, something secret, traumatic, disruptive, haunting, and yet fundamental to the existence of consciousness.

      -- N. Lukacher, emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago * Choice *

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents


      Acknowledgments


      Introduction


      1. The Event Outside of Thought


      2. The Event without Ground


      3. Event and Phenomenology


      4. Things as Events


      5. Historical Happening and the Motion of Life


      6. The Event of Being


      7. Event, World, Democracy


      8. The Secret of the Event


      Conclusion: The Ethics of the Event


      Bibliography

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