Worldly Ethics (Myers Ella
Worldly Ethics (Myers Ella What is the spirit that animates collective action? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics,…
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Worldly Ethics (Myers Ella
What is the spirit that animates collective action? Worldly Ethics offers a powerful and original response to these questions, arguing that associative democratic politics, in which citizens join together and struggle to shape shared conditions, requires a world-centered ethos. What is the ethos of democracy?
In articulating the meaning of worldly ethics, she reveals the limits of previous modes of ethics, including Michel Foucault's therapeutic model, based on a "care of the self," and Emmanuel Levinas's charitable model, based on care for the Other. This distinctive ethos, Ella Myers shows, involves care for "worldly things," which are the common and contentious objects of concern around which democratic actors mobilize. Myers contends that these approaches occlude the worldly character of political life and are therefore unlikely to inspire and support collective democratic