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Book SynopsisWhat 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 ReviewRaffoul'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 ContentsTable 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
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