Political responsibility : responding to predicaments of power / Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vázquez Arroyo, Antonio Y., 1976- author.

Series:

New directions in critical theory

New directions in critical theory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political ethics.

Government accountability.

Power (Social sciences)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Power (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

xxi, 334 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Responding to predicaments of power

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"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. Vázquez-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. Vázquez-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"--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Historicizing the ethical turn

Responsibility in history

Autonomy, ethics, intrasubjectivity

Ethical reductions

Adorno and the dialectic of responsibility

Political ethic, violence, and defeat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-316) and index.

ISBN:

9780231174848

0231174845

OCLC:

927241470