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The politics of social welfare in America /
"The Politics of Social Welfare in America examines how politicians, theorists, and citizens discuss need, welfare, and disability with respect to theoretical and political projects. Glenn David Mackin argues that participants in these discussions often miss the way their perceptions of those i...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table des matières:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Aporia of Practical Reason; Introduction: Rebeccas Story; Habermas's Known and Unknown Others; The Aporia of Practical Reason, or a Critique of the "Ethical Other"; The Political Other; 2 The Aporia of Social Rights; Introduction: A Democratic Indigestion?; "Please Don't Feed the Alligators"; "A Stew of Paradox"; (At) the Limits of Reflexivity; "Welfarizing" Politics; 3 Welfare Discourse as a Narrative of Political Founding; Introduction: "I Cant Believe I'm Losing to This Guy"; The Welfare System as a Gift; The Welfare System as a Threat.
- Aporia, Imposition, and Democracys Generative Powers4 Otherwise than Need; Introduction: The Tragedy of Welfare; From Need to Solidarity, or Rethinking the Role of Damage Imagery in Liberal Thought; Political and Ethical Disagreement, or the Problem with Consensus; The Welfare Rights Movement and the Staging of Political Conflict; 5 Needing Rights; Introduction: The Excessive Yes; Bringing the Constitution to the Poor?; Demanding Rights, Declaring Wrongs; Sovereignty as Invitation and Response, or Rereading Brennans "Tailoring Principle"; Attentiveness and the Conditions of Political Action.