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Burdens of political responsibility : narrative and the cultivation of responsiveness /
"How can human beings acknowledge and experience the burdens of political responsibility? Why are we tempted to flee them, and how might we come to affirm them? J.L. Schiff calls this experience of responsibility "the cultivation of responsiveness." In Burdens of Political Responsibil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Cover; Introduction; The Existential Demands of Globalization: Act Globally, Experience Locally; The Cultivation of Responsiveness; Politics of the Ordinary and Extraordinary; Narrative and Responsiveness: Mimesis, Production, Reception; Plan of the Book; A Reassuring Caveat; 1 The Problem of Responsiveness; Political Responsibility: From Understanding to Experience; The Concept of Responsiveness; Crisis, Narrative, and Responsiveness; 2 Thoughtlessness.
- Radical Evil and the Limits of ComprehensionThe Banality of Evil and the Promise of Thinking; Ideological and Everyday Thoughtlessness; 3 Bad Faith; The Problem of Bad Faith; Bad Faith and Structural Injustice; The Persistence of Bad Faith; Existential Psychoanalysis: Diagnostic Narratives; 4 Misrecognition; Knowledge and Practice: Toward A Reflexive Sociology of Responsiveness; Responsiveness as a Practice: Habitus, Improvisation, and Misrecognition; Crisis, Contingency, and Contestation; 5 Creative Reflections: Mimesis and Responsiveness; Narrative and Responsiveness.
- Two Effects of Narrative Concreteness: Visibilization and InvisibilizationMimesis[sub(1)]: Conceptual Structures; Mimesis[sub(2)]: From Conceptual Structures to Polyphonic Emplotment; Mimesis[sub(3)]: Transposition and Narrative Engagement; Literature and Responsiveness; 6 Ambivalent Confessions; Responsiveness and Empire; Narrative, Atonement, and Bad Faith; Narrative Engagement: Cultivating and Inhibiting Responsiveness; Conclusion: Toward a Politics of Responsiveness; Bibliography; Index.