General Theory of Victims, Hardcover by Laruelle, Francois; Hock, Jessie (TRN...

General Theory of Victims, Hardcover by Laruelle, Francois; Hock, Jessie (TRN); Dubilet, Alex (TRN), ISBN 0745679609, ISBN-13 9780745679600, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UKAuthor Laruelle is a French professor emeritus of philosophy and purveyor of "non-philosophy." Here he works with the idea of victim and "victim-in-person" to elucidate a complicated and abstract ethical theory. Laruelle begins by saying that a victim-in-person has the capacity to be defeated and to resist defeat. He goes on to propose the victim as central to current philosophy. He discusses the collapse of humanism and vanishing of "Man"; the situation of intellectuals with respect to the victim; the injustice done to the victim; the deduction of murder and persecution; and "Our Ordinary Messiahs." Distributed by Wiley. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()