Ethical Sources of Political Strength

Autor: Sara Rushing
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: The Virtues of Vulnerability
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197516645.003.0006
Popis: This chapter examines the complex relationship between vulnerability and autonomy, in dialogue with two strains of contemporary democratic theory. Engaging Bonnie Honig and Steven White on the debate over whether mortalist humanism displaces from political action, and with theorists of exit and voice about the effects of various kinds of withdrawals from institutional power, the chapter explores when having our vulnerability laid bare functions to orient us toward others and toward generative action aimed at something better, and when it gets stuck at private suffering, or inspires resentment. How might exiting itself become a site of political awakening, where a new citizen-subjectivity takes hold as we say “No” to being interpellated as certain kinds of patients, health citizens, or subjects?
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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