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Melancholic Freedom - Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Melancholic Freedom - Agency and the Spirit of Politics (Hardcover, New)
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 a 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 agency asa vocation, where the aspiration for
self-transformation and the human need for hope are fundamental
concerns.
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