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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Unread.”
- Book Title
- Extraordinary Responsibility
- ISBN
- 9781107443136
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
110744313X
ISBN-13
9781107443136
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038440519
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
263 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Extraordinary Responsibility : Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus
Publication Year
2015
Subject
History & Theory, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-003112
Reviews
"Satkunanandan argues that such "realism" overlooks the ways in which calculative responsibility is essential: the problem is to delimit the scope of such thinking, not eliminate it. What is required is "attentiveness to calculation" so the limitations of calculation can be grasped and higher forms of attentiveness can enable the incalculable, extraordinary responsibility that is constitutive of humanity. This original, deeply thoughtful argument is beautifully set out through encounters with historical thinkers and contemporary theorists and illustrated by concrete issues of public policy ... Highly recommended." J. D. Moon, Choice, "Shalini Satkunanandan argues provocatively and persuasively that being responsible calls not for paying attention to acting morally, which we better achieve indirectly, but rather for attending and tending responsively to our world. Satkunanandan's bold and insightful readings of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Plato, Kant and Weber bring to appearance the ways in which we act under the sway of calculative responsibility when we act with a view to reckoning and discharging our obligations and debts. Putting such bookkeeping morality in its place, Extraordinary Responsibility radically revises our orientation to ethics and alters our appreciation of our human possibility." Jill Frank, Cornell University, New York, "Extraordinary Responsibility is a bold, timely book ... In focusing exclusively on moral relationships that are calculable, quantifiable, and causally clear, Satkunanandan argues, we risk losing sight of the more open-ended, inexhaustibly demanding aspects of our responsibility in and to a contingent world. This beautifully written book offers a provocative vision of how democratic citizens might inhabit and practice political responsibility more fully and attentively." Doug Thompson, University of South Carolina, "The focus of Shalini Satkunanandan's insightful book is how attitudes towards society can stabilize, but in turn also trap, us." The Times Literary Supplement, "This essential book is about the importance of giving attention to things that can't be reduced to rules or formulae, and it doesn't just call for intensified attentiveness - it models it. With a keen eye for surprising textual details and unusual political angles, Shalini Satkunanandan unsettles reductive interpretations of thinkers from Plato to Koestler and challenges the simplifications through which we too often evade the ethical claims made on us by social and political reality." Patchen Markell, University of Chicago, "Extraordinary Responsibility is an extraordinary book. Through her patient, meticulous, and insightful readings of Heidegger, Weber, Nietzsche, Kant and Plato, Shalini Satkunanandan broadens and deepens our understanding of the notion of responsibility, arguing that our 'constitutive responsibility' to attend to the world, and to our place in it, matters as much to politics as our calculative responsibility to reckon up and discharge our moral debts. Satkunanandan's book is an indispensable contribution to ongoing debates about the place of morality in politics." Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University, "Extraordinary Responsibility is an extraordinary book. Through her patient, meticulous, and insightful readings of Heidegger, Weber, Nietzsche, Kant and Plato, Shalini Satkunanandan broadens and deepens our understanding of the notion of responsibility, arguing that our 'constitutive responsibility' to attend to the world, and to our place in it, matters as much to politics as our calculative responsibility to reckon up and discharge our moral debts. Satkunanandan's book is an indispensable contribution to ongoing debates about the place of morality in politics." Robert Gooding-Williams, Columbia University, New York
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
170
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics beyond the Moral Calculus explores how an impoverished understanding of human responsibility as quantifiable and dischargeable encourages moralistic politics. By reconstructing narratives of 'conversion' from 'calculable responsibility', which are offered by Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Weber, and Heidegger, Extraordinary Responsibility elaborates an ethos for a less moralized 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
BJ1451.S28 2015
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