Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Political responsibility

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo

Series statement

New directions in critical theory

Sub title

responding to predicaments of power

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

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor