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Murderous consent

Loriaux, Michael Maurice, Crépon, M, Martel, Courtland James

2019

Overview

Contests the prevalent ambition to think about politics in a way that does not raise the issue of politics' moral foundations. 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. In challenging the murderousness of consent, Crepon is subverting a fundamental political apparatus of traditional liberal rationalism and calling for a more radical understanding of interpersonal responsibility.Takes up the case for cosmopolitics in a new philosophical register, that of phenomenology and post-phenomenology.Brings literary and philosophical texts together in an unusual and productive way in order to rethink our global responsibilities.This book argues for a radical understanding of our international responsibilities and our implication in the violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit.

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy / History & Theory / PHILOSOPHY / Political ethics / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Violence / Violence in literature / Violence-Moral and ethical aspects / Violence-Political aspects
• ISBN: 0823283747, 9780823283750, 0823283755, 9780823283743