Liberalism and Human Suffering : Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics
by
A. Abbas
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0230104452
ISBN-13
9780230104457
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 17th, 2010
Print length
244 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Dimensions
21.90 x 14.70 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Political science & theoryPolitical science and theory
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A materialist critique of the politics, poetics and economics of suffering in liberalism that argues for attention to the labour of suffering of the victim in many well-meaning but flawed politics of redress, and imagines forms of representation, solidarity and justice that better honour the history and materiality of this labour.
This book investigates the sources and implications of our encounters with suffering in contemporary politics and culture, exploring the forces that determine how suffering matters. It counters liberalism''s distorting domestications of human suffering, which are most acute in its politics of redress through justice, the law, representation and inclusion. Radically rethinking the subjectivity of sufferers and arguing that our experience of the world is not prior to or outside of justice, but constitutive of it, the book recuperates a materialist politics that emphasizes sensuous activity, reclaims representation, and honors "the labor of suffering."
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