The Political Responsibilities of Everyday Bystanders

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1 Grounding Responsibility

1. Teaching as a Political Vocation

2. Citizenship

3. Political Responsibility

Part 2 Recognizing Complicity

4. Beyond Sympathy

5. Bystander Allegories

6. Bystander Stories

Part 3 Making Acquaintances

7. Culture of Simulation

8. Critical Reenactment

9. Democratic Acquaintanceship

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Credits

“The Political Responsibilities of Everyday Bystanders is an imaginative, practical, well-argued, and wonderfully written work of moral philosophy, political theory, and democratic education, all at once. It somehow—to its great credit—exudes both calmness and urgency. Its moral and political judgments are balanced and moving, in places wise. It is eminently thoughtful, and it promises, in the hands of citizen teachers, to help inculcate or evince the political responsibilities that ‘everyday bystanders’ (including students and citizen teachers themselves) have in the face of political challenges and even ‘severe violence.’”

—James Farr, Northwestern University