Thinking the Event

The author of The Origins of Responsibility presents "a major contribution to philosophical scholarship on . . . the very idea of the event" (Edward S. Casey, author of The World on Edge).

In Thinking the Event, continental philosopher François Raffoul explores the question of what constitutes an event as an event: not what happens or why it happens, but what "happening" means. If it's true that nothing happens without a reason, as Leibniz famously posited, then does this principle of reas...