Liberalism and Human Suffering

出版者:Palgrave Macmillan

作者:Asma Abbas

页数:256

出版时间:2010-9-15

价格:USD 85.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780230104457

图书标签:苦难自由主义

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."