The limit of responsibility : engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer in a globalizing era / Esther D. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Esther D., 1965- author.

Series:

T & T Clark enquiries in theological ethics.

T&T Clark enquiries in theological ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich.

Responsibility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 237 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"This volume frames the question of responsibility as a problem of agency in relation to the systems and structures of globalization. According to Ricoeur responsibility is a "shattered concept" when considered too narrowly as a problem of act, agency and individual freedom. To examine this Esther Reed develops a short genealogy of modern liberal and post-liberal concepts of responsibility in order to understand better the relationship dominant modern framings of the meanings of responsibility. Reed engages with writings by major modern (Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Weber) and post-liberal (Buber, Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, Butler, Young, Critchley) theorists to illustrate the shift from an ethnic responsibility built on notions of accountability and attributions to an ethic responsibility that starts variously from the 'other'. Reed sees Dietrich Bonhoeffer as the most promising partner of this theological dialogue, as his learning of responsibility from the risen Christ present now in the (global) church is a welcome provocation to new thinking about the meaning of responsibility learned from land, distant neighbour, (global) church and the bible."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780567679383

0567679381

9780567679369

0567679365

9780567679352

0567679357

OCLC:

1089440428