Mounk Yascha
Mounk Yascha - The Age Of Responsibility Luck Choice And The Welfare State - Paperback
Mounk Yascha - The Age Of Responsibility Luck Choice And The Welfare State - Paperback
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Description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Responsibility which once meant the moral duty to help and support others has come to be equated with an obligation to be self - sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on political theory and moral philosophy Yascha Mounk shows why this re - imagining of personal responsibility is pernicious and suggests how it might be overcome. This important book prompts us to reconsider the role of luck and choice in debates about welfare and to rethink our mutual responsibilities as citizens. Michael J. Sandel author of Justice A smart and engaging book Do we so value holding people accountable that we are willing to jeopardize our own welfare for a proper comeuppance? New York Times Book Review An important new book Mounk mounts a compelling case that political rhetoric has shifted over the last half century toward a markedly punitive vision of social welfare. Los Angeles Review of Books A terrific book. The insight at its heart that the conception of responsibility now at work in much public rhetoric and policy is both punitive and ill - conceived is very important and should be widely heeded. Jedediah Purdy author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Title: The Age Of Responsibility Luck Choice And The Welfare State
Author(s): Mounk Yascha
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Barcode: 9780674237674
Pages: 288 Pages, 1 Illus., 3 Tables
Publication Date: 6/17/2019
Category: Political Science & Theory
Description: A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Responsibility which once meant the moral duty to help and support others has come to be equated with an obligation to be self - sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on political theory and moral philosophy Yascha Mounk shows why this re - imagining of personal responsibility is pernicious and suggests how it might be overcome. This important book prompts us to reconsider the role of luck and choice in debates about welfare and to rethink our mutual responsibilities as citizens. Michael J. Sandel author of Justice A smart and engaging book Do we so value holding people accountable that we are willing to jeopardize our own welfare for a proper comeuppance? New York Times Book Review An important new book Mounk mounts a compelling case that political rhetoric has shifted over the last half century toward a markedly punitive vision of social welfare. Los Angeles Review of Books A terrific book. The insight at its heart that the conception of responsibility now at work in much public rhetoric and policy is both punitive and ill - conceived is very important and should be widely heeded. Jedediah Purdy author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
Title: The Age Of Responsibility Luck Choice And The Welfare State
Author(s): Mounk Yascha
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Barcode: 9780674237674
Pages: 288 Pages, 1 Illus., 3 Tables
Publication Date: 6/17/2019
Category: Political Science & Theory
