Shalini Satkunanandan

Extraordinary Responsibility

Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how an impoverished understanding of responsibility as quantifiable and dischargeable sustains moralistic politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781107443136
• ISBN-10: 110744313X
• Artikelnr.: 42548618

Autorenporträt

Shalini Satkunanandan has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Davis since 2011. She is a past Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago. She has published articles in Political Theory, the American Political Science Review, and Law, Culture and the Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: distracted by calculation
Part I. Calculation and Indirectness: 1. Nietzsche: morality's debt perspective
2. Heidegger: the calls of conscience and calculation
3. (In)calculable conversion
Part II. The Moralizer's Critique of Calculable Responsibility: 4. Plato: the philosopher's turn from debt justice
5. Kant: the extraordinary categorical imperative
Part III. Turning from Morality in Politics: 6. Weber: the ethos of politics beyond calculation
7. Darkness at Noon: mis-turn from morality
8. Conclusion: attention to calculation.