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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hanagan, Nora, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.