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Melancholic Freedom - Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Paperback)
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Melancholic Freedom - Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Paperback)
Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
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Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the
world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions
have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity,
that they embody what we value? What kinds of motivations are
available for political agency and judgment in an age that lacks
the enthusiasm associated with the great emancipatory movements for
civil rights and gender equality? What are the conditions for the
possibility of being an effective agent when the meaning of
democracy has become less transparent? David Kyuman Kim addresses
these crucial questions by uncovering the political, moral,
philosophical, and religious dimensions of human agency.
Kim treats agency as a form of religious experience that reflects
implicit and explicit notions of the good. Of particular concern
are the moral, political, and religious motivations that underpin
an understanding of agency as meaningful action. Through critical
engagement with the work of theorists such as Judith Butler,
Charles Taylor, and Stanley Cavell, Kim argues that late modern and
postmodern agency is found most effectively at work in what he
calls "projects of regenerating agency" or critical and strategic
responses to loss. Agency as melancholic freedom begins and
endures, Kim maintains, through the moral and psychic losses
associated with a broad range of experiences, including the moral
identities shaped by secularized modernity and the multifold forms
of alienation experienced by those who suffer the indignities of
racial, gender, class, and sexuality discrimination and oppression.
Kim calls for renewing the sense of urgency in our political and
moral engagements by seeing agencyas a vocation, where the
aspiration for self-transformation and the human need for hope are
fundamental concerns.
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