UID:
almafu_9960117264502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 254 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-316-41525-2
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1-316-41666-6
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1-316-01448-7
Inhalt:
Careful attention to contemporary political debates, including those around global warming, the federal debt, and the use of drone strikes on suspected terrorists, reveals that we often view our responsibility as something that can be quantified and discharged. Shalini Satkunanandan shows how Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Weber, and Heidegger each suggest that this calculative or bookkeeping mindset both belongs to 'morality', understood as part of our ordinary approach to responsibility, and effaces the incalculable, undischargeable, and more onerous dimensions of our responsibility. These thinkers also reveal how the view of responsibility as calculable is at the heart of 'moralism' - the pettifogging, mindless, legalistic, excessively judgmental, or punitive policing of our own or others' compliance with moral duties. By elaborating their narratives of a difficult 'conversion' to the open-ended and relentless character of responsibility, Satkunanandan explores how we might be less moralistic and more responsible in politics. She ultimately argues for a political ethos attentive to how calculative thinking can limit our responsibility, but that still accepts a circumscribed place for calculation (and morality) in responsible politics.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction: distracted by calculation -- Part I. Calculation and Indirectiness: 1. Nietzsche: Morality's debt perspective ; 2. Heidegger: The calls of conscience and calculation ; 3. (In)calculable conversion -- Part II. The Moralizers' 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: a mis-turn from morality -- 8. Conclusion: attention to calculation.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-44313-X
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-107-08272-2
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316014486
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