TY - BOOK ID - 136908571 TI - The origins of responsibility PY - 2010 SN - 1282555103 9786612555107 0253004225 9780253004222 9781282555105 6612555106 9780253354389 0253354382 9780253221735 0253221730 PB - Bloomington Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Responsibility. KW - Continental philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136908571 AB - FranÃois Raffoul approaches the concept of responsibility in a manner that is distinct from its traditional interpretation as accountability of the willful subject. Exploring responsibility in the works of Nietzsche, Sartre, Levinas, Heidegger, and Derrida, Raffoul identifies decisive moments in the development of the concept, retrieves its origins, and explores new reflections on it. For Raffoul, responsibility is less about a sovereign subject establishing a sphere of power and control than about exposure to an event that does not come from us and yet calls to us. These original and thoughtful investigations of the post-metaphysical senses of responsibility chart new directions for ethics in the continental tradition. ER -