Burdens of Political Responsibility

Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness

AvJade Larissa Schiff

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

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? Jade Larissa Schiff calls this experience of responsibility 'the cultivation of responsiveness'. In Burdens of Political Responsibility: Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness, she identifies three dispositions that inhibit responsiveness - thoughtlessness, bad faith, and misrecognition - and turns to storytelling in its manifold forms as a practice that might facilitate and frustrate it. Through critical engagements with an unusual cast of characters (from Bourdieu to Sartre) hailing from a variety of disciplines (political theory, phenomenology, sociology, and literary criticism), she argues that how we represent our world and ourselves in the stories we share, and how we receive those stories, can facilitate and frustrate the cultivation of responsiveness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-03-10
Mått:153 x 228 x 13 mm
Vikt:330 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107614284

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Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jade Larissa Schiff is Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College, Ohio. Her specialty is in twentieth- and twenty-first-century continental political theory, and she works at the intersections of political theory, phenomenology, and literary criticism. Her current research explores experiences of suffering and the ways in which we narrate and respond to those experiences.

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'In Burdens of Political Responsibility, Jade Schiff has many stories to tell - of engagement and disengagement, bad faith and good, power and powerlessness, the meaning of identity, and the claims that our specific identities make upon us. This is a nuanced, careful, and deeply felt exploration into the relationship between the ordinary and extraordinary experiences of life in a world that too often frustrates our desires to act in responsible ways. Yet Schiff is not frustrated. She instead acts as a steady and encouraging voice for new ways of facing power and connecting with others.' Thomas Dumm, Amherst College

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The problem of responsiveness; 2. Thoughtlessness; 3. Bad faith; 4. Misrecognition; 5. Mimesis and responsiveness; 6. Ambivalent confessions; Conclusion: toward a politics of responsiveness.