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9780252032974 Academic Inspection Copy

The Politics of Responsibility

  • ISBN-13: 9780252032974
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Chad Lavin
  • Price: AUD $95.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2008
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 184 pages Weight: 400g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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The liberal notions of personal responsibility that have dominated political thinking in the West for more than a century are rooted in the familiar territory of individual will and causal blame, but these theories have been assailed as no longer adequate to explain or address the political demands of a global social structure. Informed by Marx, Foucault, and Butler, Chad Lavin argues for a ''postliberal'' theory of responsibility, formulating responsibility as a process that is anchored in a persistent ability to respond, not reproach. Lavin works this formulation through discussions of contemporary political issues such as globalization, police brutality, and abortion.
''In a timely and provocative theoretical intervention, Lavin deftly critiques liberal notions of responsibility that have consistently forced us to assume political concepts such as limited causality and sovereign individuality. He argues that ontopolitical assumptions hinder our ability to develop truly relevant political responses to a variety of perplexing conditions that we confront in the twenty-first century.'' Bradley J. Macdonald, author of Performing Marx: Contemporary Negotiations of a Living Tradition
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