Decreation and the Ethical Bind: Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780823275250)

In Simone Weil's philosophical and literary work, obligation emerges at the conjuncture of competing claims: the other's self-affirmation and one's own dislocation; what one has and what one has to give; a demand that asks for too much and the extraordinary demand implied by asking nothing. The other's claims upon the self--which induce unfinished obligation, unmet sleep, hunger--drive the tensions that sustain the scene of ethical relationality at the heart of this book.

Decreation and the Ethical Bind is a study in decreative ethics in which self-dispossession conditions responsiveness to a demand to preserve the other from harm. In examining themes of obligation, vulnerability, and the force of weak speech that run from Levinas to Butler, the book situates Weil within a continental tradition of literary theory in which writing and speech articulate ethical appeal and the vexations of response. It elaborates a form of ethics that is not grounded in subjective agency and narrative coherence but one that is inscribed at the site of the self's depersonalization.

Author: Yoon Sook Cha
ISBN-10: 0823275256
ISBN-13: 9780823275250
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2017
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d