Political responsibility requires abandoning the fantasy of escaping human forms of life
Evidence
For Derrida, as for Wittgenstein, understanding responsibility requires that we give up the dream of total mastery and the fantasy that we could escape from our human forms of life. Both of them provide us with a new way of thinking about democracy that departs fundamentally from the dominant-rationalist approach. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 356
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A political perspective on human life must be restricted to human capacities — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1145; Totalizing ideologies are desperate efforts to escape responsibility — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 78; Politics should focus on sustaining ways of life, not on negotiating identities (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Tribal and racist ideology functions as escape from common responsibility
#exemplifies(0.83) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 598 - Totalizing ideologies are desperate efforts to escape responsibility
#expands(0.82) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 78 - Emancipation from society weakens rather than empowers the individual
#corroborates(0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 169 - Freedom as reason-driven self-interest ultimately requires becoming inhuman
#exemplifies(0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2324 - Politics should focus on sustaining ways of life, not on negotiating identities
#expands(0.78) - Welfare that relieves responsibility produces illusion destined to shatter catastrophically
#exemplifies(0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 620 - Rethinking political ethics requires revising assumptions about human sociability
#expands(0.75) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 565 - Avoiding public life reveals weakness, not superior moral worth
#expands(0.75) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2000 - A political perspective on human life must be restricted to human capacities
#expands(0.74) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1145 - Political society substitutes enforceable legal arrangements for unsafe human partiality.
#complicates(0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1193