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The paper interprets and partiall y criticizes the way Hannah Arendt makes a distinction between guilt and political responsibility in two essays, "Collective Responsibility," and "Organized Guilt ..." It argues for a more plausible understanding of the concept of political responsibility. Then the paper performs a reading of Arendt's book, Eichman in Jerusalem, in light of this distinction. The ultimate purpose is to arrive at a concept of responsibility useful for addressing the question: how shall we think about our responsibilities in relation to structural social injustice? |
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| Young, Iris. "Guilt versus Responsibility: A Reading and Partial Critique of Hannah Arendt" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39990_index.html> |
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| Young, I. M. , 2005-09-01 "Guilt versus Responsibility: A Reading and Partial Critique of Hannah Arendt" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39990_index.html |
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Abstract: The paper interprets and partiall y criticizes the way Hannah Arendt makes a distinction between guilt and political responsibility in two essays, "Collective Responsibility," and "Organized Guilt ..." It argues for a more plausible understanding of the concept of political responsibility. Then the paper performs a reading of Arendt's book, Eichman in Jerusalem, in light of this distinction. The ultimate purpose is to arrive at a concept of responsibility useful for addressing the question: how shall we think about our responsibilities in relation to structural social injustice? |
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| Guilt versus Responsibility: A Reading and Partial Critique of Hannah Arendt Iris Marion Young Political Science University of Chicago iyoung@uchicago.edu Prepared for meetings of the American Political Science Association Washington DC . September 2005 The motivating question for this study is: how shall moral agents think about our responsibility in relation to structural social injustice? Hannah Arendt would not have been very sympathetic to such a question. She criticized the theoretical point of view that elevates the social as |
| 22 horrible as systematically perpetrated genocide; I think of it as “ordinary” injustice. Such injustice must be of concern to us as moral and political agents precisely because it is more everyday and often conditions more criminal acts. I find the idea of political responsibility that I have interpreted and developed out of Arendt’s texts particularly useful for giving an account of responsibility in relation to structural injustice. In other writings I have begun to say how.1 1 See |
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