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Автор: François Raffoul
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Серия: Studies in Continental Thought
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      THINKING THE EVENT

      STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT

      John Sallis, editor

       Consulting Editors

      Robert Bernasconi

      John D. Caputo

      David Carr

      Edward S. Casey

      David Farrell Krell

      Lenore Langsdorf

      James Risser

      Dennis J. Schmidt

      Calvin O. Schrag

      Charles E. Scott

      Daniela Vallega-Neu

      David Wood

      THINKING THE EVENT

      François Raffoul

      Indiana University Press

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      © 2020 by François Raffoul

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Raffoul, François, 1960- author.

      Title: Thinking the event / François Raffoul.

      Description: Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, 2020. | Series: Studies in continental thought | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019055954 (print) | LCCN 2019055955 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253045133 (hardback) | ISBN 9780253045362 (paperback) | ISBN 9780253045379 (ebook)

      Subjects: LCSH: Events (Philosophy)

      Classification: LCC B105.E7 R34 2020 (print) | LCC B105.E7 (ebook) | DDC 111—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055954

      LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019055955

      ISBN 978-0-253-04513-3 (hdbk.)

      ISBN 978-0-253-04536-2 (pbk.)

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      Contents

       4Things as Events

       5Historical Happening and the Motion of Life

       6The Event of Being

       7Event, World, Democracy

       8The Secret of the Event

       Conclusion: The Ethics of the Event

       Notes

       Selected Bibliography

       Index

       Acknowledgments

      I WOULD LIKE TO thank all those who have accompanied the preparation and publication of this work. At Indiana University Press, I am first grateful to John Sallis, general editor of Studies in Continental Thought, for welcoming me in his prestigious series. I am also thankful to Dee Mortensen and Ashante Thomas for their crucial help during the production of this book as well as Jennifer Crane.

      I am thankful to Edward Casey for his invitation to present an early version of the project in the Philosophy department at Stony Brook University. The encouragement that I received after my talk and the exchanges I had with the graduate students and other faculty were a great source of inspiration for the subsequent years of writing and have accompanied me throughout this work. I also would like to acknowledge David Kleinberg-Levin for the stimulating intellectual exchanges we have had over the years and Pierre Jacerme for his philosophical guidance and friendship. I am also very grateful to Anne O’Byrne for her thoughtful response to my lecture on the event at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) and for helping me clarify my thoughts and question my own assumptions.

      At Louisiana State University, I would like to thank my colleagues in Philosophy, as well as Delbert Burkett, in Religious Studies, for his mentoring and friendship. My warm thanks go to Margaret Toups for her always diligent work.

      In Costa Rica, my thanks go to the staff at the Maragato, Luis Daniel Venegas, Luis Sandi, Warren Montana, Doña Rosa, and I am thankful for the companionship of Charlie Johnson, John Copp, Roland Ridal, and Brian Mock.

      THINKING THE EVENT

       Introduction

      I.

      Engaging in the project of “thinking the event” consists in undertaking a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes an event as an event, its very eventfulness: not what happens, not why it happens, but that it happens, and what does “happening” mean. Not the eventum, what has happened, but the evenire, the sheer happening of what happens. However, at the outset of such a work, one is immediately confronted with the following obstacle: the event has traditionally been understood and neutralized within a philosophy of substance or essence, a metaphysics of causality, subjectivity, and reason—in a word, subjected to the demands of rational thought. An event is interpreted either as the accident of a substrate or substance, as the effect or deed