Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism by Ahn, Ilsup
Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism by Ahn, Ilsup

Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism

Debt--personal, corporate, governmental--is so pervasive in contemporary economies, with its moralistic logic nearly unquestioned. Debt's necessity renders...
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Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism by Ahn, Ilsup

Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism

$169.83
Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism by Ahn, Ilsup

Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism

$169.83
Author: Ilsup Ahn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Debt--personal, corporate, governmental--is so pervasive in contemporary economies, with its moralistic logic nearly unquestioned. Debt's necessity renders it morally neutral, absolving it of the dehumanizing effect it brings in unbridled financialization.

In Just Debt Ilsup Ahn explores ethical implications of the practice of debt. By placing debt in the context of anthropology, philosophy, economics, and the ethical traditions provided by the Abrahamic religions, Ahn holds that debt was originally a form of gift, a gift that was intended as a means to serve humanity. Debt, as gift, had moral ends. Since the late eighteenth century, however, debt has been reduced to an amoral economic tool, one separated from its social and political context. Ahn recovers an ethics of debt and its moral economy by rediscovering debt's forgotten aspect--that all debts entail unique human stories. Ahn argues that it is only in and by these stories that the justice of debt can be determined. In order for debt to be justly established, its story should be free from elements of exploitation, abuse, and manipulation and should conform to the principles of serviceability, payability, and shareability.

Although the contemporary global economy disconnects debt from its context, Ahn argues that debt must be firmly grounded in the world of moral values, social solidarity, and political resolution. By re-embedding debt within its moral world, Just Debt offers a holistic ethics of debt for a neoliberal age.

Author: Ilsup Ahn
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 10/15/2017
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781481306911

About the Author

Ilsup Ahn is Carl I. Lindberg Professor of Philosophy at North Park University. He is the author of Position and Responsibility (2009) and Religious Ethics and Migration: Doing Justice to Undocumented Workers (2013). He is also a coeditor of Asian American Christian Ethics: Voices, Issues, and Methods (2015). He received his PhD in Social and Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago.


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