Public Righteousness
The Performative Ethics of Human Flourishing
- Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
Public Righteousness: The Performative Ethics of Human Flourishing is driven by the idea that part of what manifests as a disorderly display of virtue in public culture is underlined by the desire to see a more righteous society and an expression of the will to enact such an ideal world into reality. This book re-structures the ferment of such public displays and fashions an ethic that overturns the ostentatious signals of self-righteousness and the fierce contest of animating visions. This book engages the work of social ethicist Nimi Wariboko to explore an idea of public righteousness. In place of smug superiority and phony pieties, the performative ethics that inaugurate this public righteousness offer an intellectual and moral competence that establishes rectitude and culminates in human flourishing.
Endorsements (1)
“This collection of essays edited by Abimbola A. Adelakun brings together insights from performance theory, theology, and ethics to articulate a conceptual framework that shifts attention away from the individual moral agent and unto the structures that hinder human flourishing. This corrective to the widespread narcissism that often characterizes public debate of social justice issues cultivates public righteousness over against self-righteousness. By taking human suffering seriously the various authors transform this work into something beyond utopian wish fulfillment—and deserving of a wide readership beyond the academy.”
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