Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics

Abbas, A.

A materialist critique of the politics, poetics and economics of suffering in liberalism that argues for attention to the labour of suffering of the victim in many well-meaning but flawed politics of redress, and imagines forms of representation, solidarity and justice that better honour the history and materiality of this labour.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-11-17

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230104457

DOI: 10.1057/9780230113541

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 244