Extraordinary Responsibility - Shalini Satkunanandan

Extraordinary Responsibility

Politics beyond the Moral Calculus
Buch | Hardcover
263 Seiten
2015
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-08272-4 (ISBN)
93,50 inkl. MwSt
This book explores how an impoverished understanding of responsibility as quantifiable and dischargeable sustains moralistic politics.
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.

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.

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.

Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 235 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 1-107-08272-2 / 1107082722
ISBN-13 978-1-107-08272-4 / 9781107082724
Zustand Neuware
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