Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 626 g
Responding to Predicaments of Power
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 164 mm, Gewicht: 626 g
Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory
ISBN: 978-0-231-17484-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it represents as an effective response to power.
Sounding the alarm for those who care about robust forms of civic engagement, this book fights for a new conception of political responsibility that meets the challenges of today's democratic practice. Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo forcefully argues against the notion that modern predicaments of power can only be addressed ethically or philosophically through pristine concepts that operate outside of the political realm. By returning to the political, the individual is reintroduced to the binding principles of participatory democracy and the burdens of acting and thinking as a member of a collective. Vázquez-Arroyo historicizes the ethical turn to better understand its ascendence and reworks Adorno's dialectic of responsibility to reassert the political in contemporary thought and theory.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historicizing the Ethical Turn2. Responsibility in History3. Autonomy4. Ethical Reductions5. Adorno and the Dialectic of Responsibility6. Political EthicNotesIndex
