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The Age of Responsibility

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

The Age of Responsibility

By Yascha Mounk

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About the book

A novel focus on "personal responsibility" has transformed political thought and public policy in America and Europe. Since the 1970s, responsibility--which once meant the moral duty to help and support others--has come to suggest an obligation to be self-sufficient. This narrow conception of responsibility has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on intellectual history, political theory, and moral philosophy, Yascha Mounk sho...Show more

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9780674545465

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2017

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The Age of Responsibility

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Hardcover

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