ISBN:
9789048130368
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law
DDC:
170
Keywords:
Ethics
;
Philosophy (General)
;
Political science Philosophy
;
Social sciences
;
Social sciences Philosophy
Abstract:
This path breaking volume raises a number of necessary questions related to various aspects of responsibility for others through its multidisciplinary approach. Unlike its predecessors it takes a starting point in various empirical contexts and consequently draws conclusions from there on. The importance of the topic is reflected by absolute domination of neo-liberalism: facing a dismantling of the welfare state, privatization and the spread of `privatist` mentality in the era of individualization. The economic rationality sets the values that we are expected to live up to, reincarnating yet again the classical Frankfurt School diagnosis: politics are determined by economy. The importance of the method is reflected by taking real life situations as a starting point. In doing so, the method also challenges the current trend science generally where concepts are kidnapped from their native contexts, and recycled: re-used in contexts unnatural to them, where the only reality that matters is the one determined by the scientists ability to define it. This volume rejects the neo-liberal paradigm of responsibility as the only valid interpretation of reality. Therefore academics, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as general readers will find this volume thought provoking. `the commitment to situating questions of responsibility in social contexts this is something that is neglected in philosophy and only recently coming to the fore in sociology.` Keith Tester, co-author of Bauman Before Postmodernity: Invitation, Conversations and Annotated Bibliography 1953-1989, author of The Social Thought of Zygmunt Bauman (2004), Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman (2001). `This project is an original and valuable contribution to discussion of these important issues,... a good text for graduate and senior undergraduate texts in political theory, political philosophy, moral
Description / Table of Contents:
Responsibility Preface; Acknowledgments; In Memoriam Iris Marion Young; Contributors; Responsibility Introduction; Question of Responsibility, a Philosophical Exchange with Zygmunt Bauman; Paradoxes in Kants Account of Citizenship; Political Autonomy and Moral Self-understanding: Kant's Justification of ``Substantive Freedom''; Responsibility and Global Labor Justice; A Theory of Indifference; Media, Bystanders, Actors; Temporality and the Culture of Modernity; Moral Responsibility for Others: Why Does the ``Being for'' Always Precede the ``Being with''; Conclusion; Index;
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DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-3037-5
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