{"product_id":"the-age-of-responsibility","title":"The Age Of Responsibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eResponsibility—which once meant the moral duty to help and support others—has come to be equated with an obligation to be self-sufficient. This has guided recent reforms of the welfare state, making key entitlements conditional on good behavior. Drawing on political theory and moral philosophy, Yascha Mounk shows why this re-imagining of personal responsibility is pernicious—and suggests how it might be overcome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This important book prompts us to reconsider the role of luck and choice in debates about welfare, and to rethink our mutual responsibilities as citizens.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Michael J. Sandel, author of Justice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A smart and engaging book… Do we so value holding people accountable that we are willing to jeopardize our own welfare for a proper comeuppance?”\u003cbr\u003e\n—New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An important new book… [Mounk] mounts a compelling case that political rhetoric…has shifted over the last half century toward a markedly punitive vision of social welfare.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A terrific book. The insight at its heart—that the conception of responsibility now at work in much public rhetoric and policy is both punitive and ill-conceived—is very important and should be widely heeded.”\u003cbr\u003e\n—Jedediah Purdy, author of After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45160248246451,"sku":"9780674237674","price":1599.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/61M7bWYw-TL.jpg?v=1764594387","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-age-of-responsibility","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}