Extraordinary responsibility : politics beyond the moral calculus /
"In Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus, Shalini Satkunanandan identifies a common tendency to view our responsibility as something that can be quantified and discharged. She shows how several key thinkers in the history of philosophy and political theory - Plato, K...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: distracted by calculation
- Part I. Calculation and Indirectiness: 1. Nietzsche: Morality's debt perspective ; 2. Heidegger: The calls of conscience and calculation ; 3. (In)calculable conversion
- Part II. The Moralizers' Critique of Calculable Responsibility: 4. Plato: The philosopher's turn from debt justice ; 5. Kant: The extraordinary categorical imperative
- Part III. Turning from Morality in Politics: 6. Weber: The ethos of politics beyond calculation ; 7. Darkness at noon: a mis-turn from morality
- 8. Conclusion: attention to calculation.