Liberalism and human suffering
Subtitle: materialist reflections on politics, ethics, and aesthetics
By: Asma Abbas.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230104457
Subjects: Liberalism -- Moral and ethical aspects; Suffering -- Political aspects; Historical materialism
Description: 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."