Robbins The Beneficiary

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7217-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reckoning with one's role in perpetuating systematic inequality, Bruce Robbins examines the implications of a humanitarianism in which the prosperous are the both the cause and the beneficiaries of the abhorrent conditions they seek to remedy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robbins, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Starving Child 15
2. You Acquiesce In It: George Orwell on the System 33
3. A Short History of Commodity Recognition 51
4. The Nation-State as Agent of Cosmopolitanism 75
5. Naomi Klein's Love Story 93
6. Life Will Win 117
Conclusion: You Can't Handle the Truth 139
Notes 155
Bibliography 169
Index 177

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the author and editor of several books, including Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence, also published by Duke University Press, and Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State. Robbins has written for The Nation, n+1, and other publications.