Decreation and the Ethical Bind : Simone Weil and the Claim of the Other
Cha, Yoon Sook
ISBN 10: 0823275256 ISBN 13: 9780823275250
Published by Modern Language Initiative, 2017
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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.
About the Author: Yoon Sook Cha received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Title: Decreation and the Ethical Bind : Simone ...
Publisher: Modern Language Initiative
Publication Date: 2017
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: As New