Shalini Satkunanandan
Biographic Data
| ID | 2475238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shalini Satkunanandan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shalini |
| FAMILY NAME | Satkunanandan |
| SIGNATURE | SATKUNANANDAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7417-3671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Passing By
Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality warns that revenge’s reactiveness can jeopardize salutary change in shared values. I identify an overlooked revenge-mitigating praxis in the spatial movements of Nietzsche’s fictional prophet Zarathustra, who seeks collaborators to overcome Christian morality and create new world-affirming values. Zarathustra’s well-known response to revenge, specifically the revenge against time undergirding interpersonal…
Living (Together) with the Consequences of Value Struggle
In his influential account of value pluralism Weber forecloses an architectonic intellectual resolution of value conflict and valorizes value struggle itself as a site for the achievement of personality. Weber is, therefore, a potential source of insight about how to live with political others amidst ongoing value conflict. We can glean such insight from a political ethos of concern for consequences, which is discernible in Weber’s late political…
Drawing Rein
Political commentators claim that the rule of law relies, in part, on those bound by law having a sense of shame. I elucidate shame’s underlying structure and its role in law’s rule through a study of aidōs in Plato’s Laws and Phaedrus. The Greek aidōs names a feeling in which one pulls back from violating a limit. It signifies shame, but also reverence, awe, and modesty. I argue that aidōs is an affect in which we pause before limits and are inv…
Response to Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo’s review of Extraordinary Responsibility
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Bureaucratic Passions
In order to have a more nuanced conversation about the role and size of government, we should attend to our diverse passional experiences of bureaucracy. We overlook our affective experience of bureaucracy in our usual focus on bureaucracy’s impersonality and passionless rule and on cost-benefit analyses of individual regulations. To the extent that we consider bureaucracy’s passional effects, bureaucracy is cast as something that saps passion – …
Max Weber and the Ethos of Politics beyond Calculation
According to the prevailing interpretation of "Politics as a Vocation," the Weberian political leader is willing to leave morality behind and make hard-headed consequentialist calculations about political means. I argue that the Weberian political leader is more accurately described as someone who keeps calculation in its place-both in terms of assessing the consequences of pursuing certain means and, more fundamentally, in terms of a basic frame…
Speaking Faith to Modern Law
Acknowledging the faith that is part of modern law (but that modern law disavows) allows us to provide a more just account of modern law – an account that pays heed to the ways that modern law cannot be reduced to a technical enterprise, is more than a mere exercise of power, and retains a vital connection to justice. The technical cast of modern thinking makes it difficult to speak faith to modern law, but also makes such an endeavor essential
The Extraordinary Categorical Imperative
Many political theorists assume that Kant’s categorical imperative can only present itself to politics epistemologically—that is, as a test or procedure for acquiring more certain knowledge of duties. This study retrieves the ontological aspect of the categorical imperative by showing that the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals is a conversion narrative. In the Groundwork Kant describes a transformative encounter with the categorical imperati…
Max Weber and the Ethos of Politics beyond Calculation
According to the prevailing interpretation of "Politics as a Vocation," the Weberian political leader is willing to leave morality behind and make hard-headed consequentialist calculations about political means. I argue that the Weberian political leader is more accurately described as someone who keeps calculation in its place-both in terms of assessing the consequences of pursuing certain means and, more fundamentally, in terms of a basic frame…
Bureaucratic Passions
In order to have a more nuanced conversation about the role and size of government, we should attend to our diverse passional experiences of bureaucracy. We overlook our affective experience of bureaucracy in our usual focus on bureaucracy’s impersonality and passionless rule and on cost-benefit analyses of individual regulations. To the extent that we consider bureaucracy’s passional effects, bureaucracy is cast as something that saps passion – …
The Extraordinary Categorical Imperative
Many political theorists assume that Kant’s categorical imperative can only present itself to politics epistemologically—that is, as a test or procedure for acquiring more certain knowledge of duties. This study retrieves the ontological aspect of the categorical imperative by showing that the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals is a conversion narrative. In the Groundwork Kant describes a transformative encounter with the categorical imperati…
Drawing Rein
Political commentators claim that the rule of law relies, in part, on those bound by law having a sense of shame. I elucidate shame’s underlying structure and its role in law’s rule through a study of aidōs in Plato’s Laws and Phaedrus. The Greek aidōs names a feeling in which one pulls back from violating a limit. It signifies shame, but also reverence, awe, and modesty. I argue that aidōs is an affect in which we pause before limits and are inv…
Speaking Faith to Modern Law
Acknowledging the faith that is part of modern law (but that modern law disavows) allows us to provide a more just account of modern law – an account that pays heed to the ways that modern law cannot be reduced to a technical enterprise, is more than a mere exercise of power, and retains a vital connection to justice. The technical cast of modern thinking makes it difficult to speak faith to modern law, but also makes such an endeavor essential
The Extraordinary Categorical Imperative
Many political theorists assume that Kant’s categorical imperative can only present itself to politics epistemologically—that is, as a test or procedure for acquiring more certain knowledge of duties. This study retrieves the ontological aspect of the categorical imperative by showing that the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals is a conversion narrative. In the Groundwork Kant describes a transformative encounter with the categorical imperati…
Max Weber and the Ethos of Politics beyond Calculation
According to the prevailing interpretation of "Politics as a Vocation," the Weberian political leader is willing to leave morality behind and make hard-headed consequentialist calculations about political means. I argue that the Weberian political leader is more accurately described as someone who keeps calculation in its place-both in terms of assessing the consequences of pursuing certain means and, more fundamentally, in terms of a basic frame…
Bureaucratic Passions
In order to have a more nuanced conversation about the role and size of government, we should attend to our diverse passional experiences of bureaucracy. We overlook our affective experience of bureaucracy in our usual focus on bureaucracy’s impersonality and passionless rule and on cost-benefit analyses of individual regulations. To the extent that we consider bureaucracy’s passional effects, bureaucracy is cast as something that saps passion – …
Response to Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo’s review of Extraordinary Responsibility
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Drawing Rein
Political commentators claim that the rule of law relies, in part, on those bound by law having a sense of shame. I elucidate shame’s underlying structure and its role in law’s rule through a study of aidōs in Plato’s Laws and Phaedrus. The Greek aidōs names a feeling in which one pulls back from violating a limit. It signifies shame, but also reverence, awe, and modesty. I argue that aidōs is an affect in which we pause before limits and are inv…
Living (Together) with the Consequences of Value Struggle
In his influential account of value pluralism Weber forecloses an architectonic intellectual resolution of value conflict and valorizes value struggle itself as a site for the achievement of personality. Weber is, therefore, a potential source of insight about how to live with political others amidst ongoing value conflict. We can glean such insight from a political ethos of concern for consequences, which is discernible in Weber’s late political…
Passing By
Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality warns that revenge’s reactiveness can jeopardize salutary change in shared values. I identify an overlooked revenge-mitigating praxis in the spatial movements of Nietzsche’s fictional prophet Zarathustra, who seeks collaborators to overcome Christian morality and create new world-affirming values. Zarathustra’s well-known response to revenge, specifically the revenge against time undergirding interpersonal…
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