Crépon, Marc.

Murderous Consent : On the Accommodation of Violent Death. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (237 pages) - Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series . - Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series .

Cover -- Murderous Consent -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Justice -- 2 Life -- 3 Freedom -- 4 Truth -- 5 The World -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Friendship: A Trial by History -- Notes -- Index.

Murderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerability and mortality of the other enjoin everywhere.

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Violence-Moral and ethical aspects.
Violence-Political aspects.
Political ethics.


Electronic books.

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