‘Happy slaves’?: the adaptation problem and identity politics
in the writings of Amartya Sen

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‘Happy slaves’?: the adaptation problem and identity politics in the writings of Amartya Sen

This paper examines the relationship between Amartya Sen’s notion of adaptation and his views on identity politics by focusing on the issue of slavery and, more specifically, on the example of the happy or contented slave. The methodological approach adopted is that of conceptual analysis, as is typ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Burns, Tony
Format:	Article
Published:	Emerald 2016
Subjects:	Amartya Sen Adaptation Problem Identity Politics Mary Wollstonecraft John Stuart Mill Benthamite utilitarianism
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36479/

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