Competing Responsibilities The Ethics and Politics of Contemporary Life |
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| Editor:
| Trnka, Susanna
Trundle, Catherine |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-6375-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2017 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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With a mix of ethnography and social theory, the contributors to Competing Responsibilities challenge contemporary understandings of responsibility in political, social, and ethical life by showing how neoliberalism's reification of the "responsible subject" masks the myriad forms of individual and collective responsibility that people engage with in their everyday lives.
With a mix of ethnography and social theory, the contributors to Competing Responsibilities challenge contemporary understandings of responsibility in political, social, and ethical life by showing how neoliberalism's reification of the "responsible subject" masks the myriad forms of individual and collective responsibility that people engage with in their everyday lives.