The Limit of Responsibility: Engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics in a Globalizing Era

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Cover Contents Abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword Preface Framing the Question Accountability Attribution Unbearability Thoughtlessness Plurality Spectacle Genealogy of a Concept Capacity Possessed by the Self Inherent in Individual Freedom Subsumed within a Totalizing Logic Bourgeois Diversion Integral to Instrumental Rationality Having an Affinity with Capitalism Why Bonhoeffer? Responsibility and the Problem of ‘Act’ Self and Other Bonhoeffer’s Critique of Hegel Responsibility as Corollary of the Problem of Selfhood Responsibility in Freedom Responsibility and the Problem of ‘Being’ Responsibility Reversed Christ the Limit The Concrete Church and the Problem of Guilt Responsibility: Miteinander, Füreinander, Stellvertretung Being miteinander in Sin Postcolonial Readings of Bonhoeffer Revisiting Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Work Learning in Silence Being füreinander across Global Inequality Tax Holding Corporations to Account Why Human Rights Agendas Matter Stellvertretung as the Lived Meaning of Responsibility Stellvertretung Learned from the Land Giving the Land a Voice Truthing Confronting the Vices of Hubris ‘Sell all that you have’? The Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative Partners in Sustainable Development? Overcoming the Resource Curse? Responsibility Lived as Church Learning from Advocacy Agents Responsibility as Political Event Focused on the Empirical Church Maintaining a Chalcedonian Framework Church under Judgement The Politics of Pentecost Empowerment Penultimate Conclusions Biblical References Bonhoeffer Works Names Subjects