The politics of social welfare in America / Glenn David Mackin, University of Rochester.

"The Politics of Social Welfare in America examines how politicians, theorists, and citizens discuss need, welfare, and disability with respect to theoretical and political projects. Glenn David Mackin argues that participants in these discussions often miss the way their perceptions of those in need shape their discourse. Professor Mackin also explores disability rights groups and welfare rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s to examine the ways that those designated as needy or incompetent often challenge these designations, thus making the issue of welfare an ongoing conflict over who counts as competent and generating new ways of understanding democracy and equality"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Aporia of Practical Reason; Introduction: Rebeccas Story; Habermas's Known and Unknown Others; The Aporia of Practical Reason, or a Critique of the "Ethical Other"; The Political Other; 2 The Aporia of Social Rights; Introduction: A Democratic Indigestion?; "Please Don't Feed the Alligators"; "A Stew of Paradox"; (At) the Limits of Reflexivity; "Welfarizing" Politics; 3 Welfare Discourse as a Narrative of Political Founding; Introduction: "I Cant Believe I'm Losing to This Guy"; The Welfare System as a Gift; The Welfare System as a Threat.

Aporia, Imposition, and Democracys Generative Powers4 Otherwise than Need; Introduction: The Tragedy of Welfare; From Need to Solidarity, or Rethinking the Role of Damage Imagery in Liberal Thought; Political and Ethical Disagreement, or the Problem with Consensus; The Welfare Rights Movement and the Staging of Political Conflict; 5 Needing Rights; Introduction: The Excessive Yes; Bringing the Constitution to the Poor?; Demanding Rights, Declaring Wrongs; Sovereignty as Invitation and Response, or Rereading Brennans "Tailoring Principle"; Attentiveness and the Conditions of Political Action.

English.

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