A duty to resist: when disobedience should be uncivil

What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? As Candice Delmas argues, we have a duty to resist injustice, which is more important, sometimes, than our duty to obey the law. Drawing from the tradition of activists including Thoreau, Gandhi, and the Movement for Black Lives, Delmas concept...

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Main Author: Delmas, Candice (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2018]
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Summary:What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? As Candice Delmas argues, we have a duty to resist injustice, which is more important, sometimes, than our duty to obey the law. Drawing from the tradition of activists including Thoreau, Gandhi, and the Movement for Black Lives, Delmas conceptualizes and defends uncivil disobedience and explores its practices and limits. Delmas turns the traditional arguments for civil disobedience on their head, and lays out a clear argument for the duty to go beyond that to resist injustice, even by uncivil means, when necessary
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressourc (ix, 295 Seiten)
ISBN:9780190872229
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190872199.001.0001

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