Thinking the Event

by François Raffoul

Book Overview

What happens when something happens? In Thinking the Event, senior continental philosophy scholar Fran ois Raffoul undertakes a philosophical inquiry into what constitutes an event as event, its very eventfulness: not what happens or why it happens, but that it happens, and what "happening" means. If, as Leibniz posited, it is true that nothing happens without a reason, does this principle of reason have a reason? For Raffoul, the event...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253045363
• ISBN13: 9780253045362
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher