Responsibility (n.) is marked by the absolute singularity of responsibility to the other and is not associated with a behavior publicly and rationally justifiable by general principles.
Responsibility (n.) is the concerning of oneself [se charger] with a heard speech... it is to take upon oneself the exchange of sense in order to stand guard over its progression.
Responsibility (n.) is the enduring of the oscillating between the demands of that which is wholly other and the more general demands of a community.
Responsibility (n.) keeps a demon locked inside as its secret: a nucleus of irresponsibility it claims to have left behind.
Responsibility (n.) cannot happen without a dissident rupture with the very rules that define it.
Responsibility (n.) is never fully thought, and trying to think it through completely is itself a lack of responsibility.
Responsibility (n.) is called up from the place where I am irreplaceable, which is death.
Responsibility (n.) is an aporia: it demands both a general accounting and absolute singularity, both substitution and its refusal.
Responsibility (n.) brings a dreadful loneliness the tragic hero never knows; he can weep with others, and tears and cries relieve.
Responsibility (n.) as a general concept lacks coherence yet functions all the better for hiding the abyss beneath its conventions.
Responsibility (n.) has a genealogy of cruelty and sacrifice, a theatre where fault is debt between creditor and debtor.