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Democratic Responsibility : The Politics of Many Hands in America /
"American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and wh...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The problem of many hands in American life
- Resisting the machine: Thoreau on responsibility and individual autonomy
- Sharing responsibility: Jane Addams's social ethics
- Choosing justice over order: Martin Luther King Jr. on responsibility, extremism, and democratic politics
- Transforming silence: Audre Lorde on responsibility, self-expression, and bearing witness to one another
- Democratic responsibility in the twenty-first century.