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A Genealogy of the Good and Critique of Hubris - A History of the Discourse on Social Welfare in the United States (Hardcover)
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A Genealogy of the Good and Critique of Hubris - A History of the Discourse on Social Welfare in the United States (Hardcover)
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In A Genealogy of the Good and Critique of Hubris, Phillip Dybicz
employs a deep historical analysis to the field of social welfare
in a highly untraditional manner. Rather than seeking to map out a
tale of linear progress and advancement in society's understanding
of social welfare and its administration, this book seeks to
address the following question: "Are we morally progressing in our
understanding of social welfare and its administration?" Geared
toward both academics and practitioners, rather than focusing upon
gains in technical know-how and knowledge of social welfare, Dybicz
explores what gains are being made across various eras in our
wisdom to humanely provide relief to those in our society that are
oppressed, dispossessed, and in need in a manner that avoids moral
pitfalls such as social control. Adopting Michael Foucault's
genealogical method of historical investigation, Dybicz reaches
back to the seventeenth century and describes four distinct eras in
which a particular discourse dominated our understanding and
efforts at social welfare. He examines how economic, political,
social, and even geographic conditions shape society's perceived
needs in social welfare. As well as examining how prominent
intellectual thought, a philosophical paradigm describing reality
and knowledge generation, defining cultural features and themes,
and concepts of the self, all serve to shape our understanding of
social welfare and what its desired qualities and aims should be.
Together, the above elements coalesce to form a grand discourse
that in the Foucaultian tradition speaks to an underlying urgent
need of society, and various rules-of-right that shape knowledge
generation.
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