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Confronting Political Responsibility: The Problem of Acknowledgment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jacob Schiff
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Abstract

Iris Marion Young articulated a social connection model of responsibility to conceptualize political responsibility for structural injustice. Schiff argues that actually confronting our responsibility is problematic: the pervasiveness of structural injustice makes it difficult to acknowledge as a problem, while distances between sufferers and contributors complicate our acknowledgment of social connection. These problems are exacerbated by thoughtlessness, bad faith, and misrecognition. Narrative can facilitate the acknowledgment necessary for us to confront our political responsibility.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 3: Special Issue: In Honor of Iris Marion Young: Theorist and Practitioner of Justice , September 2008 , pp. 99 - 117
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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