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Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power (New Directions in Critical Theory): 25 - Hardcover

Book 31 of 59: New Directions in Critical Theory

Vázquez–arroyo, Antonio

 
9780231174848: Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments of Power (New Directions in Critical Theory): 25
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231174845 ISBN 13: 9780231174848
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Scholars in the humanities and social sciences have turned to ethics to theorize politics in what seems to be an increasingly depoliticized age. Yet the move toward ethics has obscured the ongoing value of political responsibility and the vibrant life it represents as an effective response to power. Sounding the alarm for those who care about robust forms of civic engagement, this book fights for a new conception of political responsibility that meets the challenges of today's democratic practice. Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo forcefully argues against the notion that modern predicaments of power can only be addressed ethically or philosophically through pristine concepts that operate outside of the political realm. By returning to the political, the individual is reintroduced to the binding principles of participatory democracy and the burdens of acting and thinking as a member of a collective. Vazquez-Arroyo historicizes the ethical turn to better understand its ascendence and reworks Adorno's dialectic of responsibility to reassert the political in contemporary thought and theory.

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About the Author

Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University-Newark.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0231174845
ISBN 13 
9780231174848
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
368