Melancholic Freedom: Agency and the Spirit of Politics
Why does agency-the capacity to make choices and to act in the world-matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that they embody what we value? David Kyuman Kim addresses these crucial questions by uncovering the political, moral, philosophical, and religious dimensions of human agency. Through a critical engagement with the work of theorists such as Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, andStanley Cavell, Kim argues that late modern and postmodern agency is found most effectively at work in what he calls projects of regenerating agency or critical and strategic respon…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-537246-5
- EAN: 9780195372465
- Produktnummer: 22686047
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.2 cm 322 g
- Gewicht: 322
Über den Autor
David Kyuman Kim is Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Connecticut College.
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