Connected by commitment: oppression and our responsibility to undermine it

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Mara Marin complicates the primary ways in which we make sense of human and political relationships and our obligations within them. Rather than thinking of relationships in terms of our intentions, Marin thinks of them as open-ended and subject to ongoing commitments. By assessing three types of social relations - political-legal relations, intimate relations of care, and work relations - 'Connected by Commitment' examines our obligations to transform structures of oppression and offers commit…

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Full title :Connected by commitment : oppression and our responsibility to undermine it / Mara Marin.

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Publication Date:2017

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Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 199 pages .)

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ISBN:9780190498634, 0190498633, 9780190498641, 0190498641, 0190840064, 9780190840068
oclc:on1004512518
LC Classification:JC329.5
Dewey Decimal:362.87/52

Cover; Connected by Commitment; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: What Are Commitments?; Chapter Two: Modeling Commitment for Structural Relations; Chapter Three: Laws, Judgment, and Political Obligations of Commitment; Chapter Four: Care, Oppression, and Marriage as Commitment; Chapter Five: Labor Relations and the Politics of Commitment; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Commitment (Psychology) Engagement Justice sociale Obligation politique Oppression Oppression (Psychology) Political Obligation POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory Political science -- Philosophy Sciences sociales -- Philosophie Social justice Social sciences -- Philosophy