Bound to Act
Subtitle: Models of Action, Dramas of Inaction
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 21, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780804733304
Subjects: Literary theory; Philosophy Of Action; Philosophy; Political; Philosophy / Political; Metaphysics; Act (Philosophy)
Description: "This study of models of action seeks to respond to the loss of faith in political action that seems to predominate in Western societies, to the sense that there is nothing we can do to change the course of events, or that political action is ultimately useless, without effect in a world governed by independent political and economic laws.

Its topic is the tension between the theme of the impossibility of acting, a question since Hamlet, and the impression that many events involving human agency do indeed take place. The author deals with both philosophical and dramatic texts in addressing this question."--BOOK JACKET.