Responsibility and death From: Philosophy Today | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright DePaul University Spring 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

The crypto- or mysto-genealogy of responsibility is woven with the double and inextricably intertwined thread of the gift and of death: in short of the gift of death.

Derrida, The Gift of Death

Responsibility, like many words in Emmanuel Levinas's work, lends itself to being too easily read. It is, for Levinas, a profoundly enigmatic concept. This concept-again, like many in Levinas's work-possesses a genealogy and calls for being read accordingly. It possesses a genealogy that turns back upon itself, calls an initial reading into question, thereby calling for a reading that necessarily, ...

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