The Politics of Commitment

Towards a Better Future for Humanity
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-40522-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

This book examines the nature of our commitment to the long-term survival of humanity. It addresses the lack of a sustainable and ethical commitment to a shared and binding future for the well-being of those who will come after us.

While other texts focus on the threats to our survival, such as climate catastrophe or nuclear annihilation, this study argues that a greater threat to our survival is our disposition of ambivalence about the value of future lives. The other claim of the book is that, to avoid our extinction, we have to recover a sense of ourselves as beings worthy of salvation.

Clearly argued and jargon free, the book will be useful for scholars with an academic interest in philosophy, psychology, sociology, history, culture studies, and population ethics.

Zielgruppe

General and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clohesy, Anthony M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Arguments for the Future; 3. Arguments for Extinction; 4. The Limits to Commitment; 5. Overcoming Limits; 6. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony M. Clohesy left the University of Essex in 2018 after many years of teaching in the sociology department and in the International Academy. His recent publication is The Politics of Well-Being: Towards a More Ethical World (2021).