The Origins of Responsibility

Contents

Contents· Acknowledgments · ix· List of Abbreviations · xi Introduction The Origins of Responsibility · 1 one Aristotle: Responsibility as Voluntariness · 39 two Kant: Responsibility as Spontaneity of the Subject · 58 three Nietzsche’s Deconstruction of Accountability · 80 four Sartre: Hyperbolic Responsibility · 121 five Levinas’s Reversal of Responsibility · 163 six Heidegger’s Originary Ethics · 220 seven Heidegger: The Ontological Origins of Responsibility · 242 eight Derrida: The Impossible Origins of Responsibility · 282 Conclusion The Future of Responsibility · 300· Notes · 305· Index · 331 ...