The moral neoliberal
Subtitle: welfare and citizenship in Italy
By: Andrea Muehlebach
Series: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780226545394; 9780226545400
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government; Welfare state; Social service
Description: Morality is often imagined to be at odds with capitalism and its focus on the bottom line, but in 'The Moral Neoliberal' morality is shown as the opposite: an indispensable tool for capitalist transformation. The author tracks the phenomenal rise of voluntarism in the wake of the state's withdrawal of social service programmes.
Table of contents: title: An opulence of virtue; title: Death of a king; title: Markets and morals; title: An opulence of virtue; title: Ethical citizenship; title: A crisis of loneliness; title: Who cares?; title: Ethical citizenship; title: The moral neoliberal; title: Consecrations: from welfare state to welfare community; title: The oath; title: Welfare community; title: Sacred social; title: Sacralizing "activity"; title: A temple of humanity; title: The ethical state; title: Social capitalism; title: The Catholicization of neoliberalism; title: The production of compassion; title: A heartfelt citizenship; title: The production of dispassion; title: The production of compassion 1: the public management of virtue; title: The production of compassion 2: education of desire; title: The production of compassion 3: arts of suffering, feeling, listening; title: The production of compassion 4: empowerment; title: Doubt; title: Privatizing the public sphere; title: An age full of virtue; title: Super seniors; title: An age full of virtue; title: Labor, life cycle, and generational contract; title: Learning to labor, or, citizenship as work; title: Care of the self; title: A new generational contract; title: Aftereffects of utopian practice; title: The question of solidarity; title: Lavoro or impegno? work or commitment?; title: Passions at work; title: Aftereffects of utopian practice; title: From politics to ethics; title: From ethics to politics; or, the social life of social citizenship; title: The private face of privatization; title: Enemy in the house; title: The professor and the angel; title: Ethical citizenship as relational labor; title: The ethics of relational labor; title: Appearing in public; title: Disengagement; title: Wounding and healing.