TY  - GEN
T1  - Judging Complicity
A1  - Vogler, Gisli
LA  - eng
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-157903
AB  - How can those profiting from inequality, racism, human rights violations and climate change respond to their complicity in injustice and violence? In this book, Gisli Vogler argues that we need an improved conception of judging complicity under conditions of both plurality and inescapable social conditioning. Bringing Hannah Arendt’s account of political judgement into dialogue with Margaret Archer’s theory of social conditioning, Vogler formulates a new framework – what he terms an ‘ethos of reality’ – for understanding how people may judge and respond to their entanglement in injustice and violence. Such a theoretical argument is tested through a case study on the complicity of consumers in the plastic pollution caused by the food and drink industries. Additionally, Vogler analyses the interviews and writings of Nobel Laureate Herta Müller, whose lived experience of the Romanian dictatorship constitutes an example of good judgement on complicity. This book persuasively demonstrates the potential for an ‘ethos of reality’ to contribute to key contemporary debates on complicity and moral responsibility.
KW  - Political Science
KW  - History & Theory
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political
KW  - Civics & Citizenship
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPS Social & political philosophy
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights::JPVH1 Civil rights & citizenship
ER  -