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The Age of Responsibility

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

The Age of Responsibility

By Yascha Mounk

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceResponsibility-which once meant the moral duty to help and support others-has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on political theory and moral philosophy, Yascha Mounk shows why this re-imagining of personal responsibility is pernicious-and suggests how it might be overcome."This important book prompts us to recon...Show more

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9780674237674

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2019

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The Age of Responsibility

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