How can human beings acknowledge and experience the burdens of political responsibility? Why are we tempted to flee them, and how might we come to affirm them? Jade Larissa Schiff calls this experience of responsibility the cultivation of responsiveness. In Burdens of Political Responsibility: Narrative and the Cultivation of Responsiveness, she identifies three dispositions that inhibit responsiveness thoughtlessness, bad faith, and misrecognition and turns to storytelling in its manifold forms as a practice that might facilitate and frustrate it. Through critical engagements with an unusual...
How can human beings acknowledge and experience the burdens of political responsibility? Why are we tempted to flee them, and how might we come to aff...
