amartya sen development as freedom chapter 1 summary

This is an important component of any politics that would wish to style itself as ‘progressive’: we need ideas to fight for, as the anti-apartheid and civil rights struggles very clearly showed (and as have some Truth Commissions after the struggle was won).

Sen, rather like Rawls and Habermas (despite an interesting debate between these last two Habermas, 1995 Rawls, 1996, lecture IX), writes more often of a politics that places its faith in an appeal to public reason (that is somewhat akin to Rawls’s appeal a ‘veil of ignorance’ or to Habermas’s appeal to an ‘ideal speech situation’ - and see also a further variant upon this theme by Scanlon 1998). My point, simply, is that Sen tells us very little about his understandings of or commitment to such a politics, or a political party/regime in this mould. I am not arguing that Sen is, or is likely to be, opposed to a political party that combines a coherent and stable leadership, a clear pro-lower class ideology, a strong base of cadres who are active in the countryside, and a sensitivity to democratic norms (which is roughly how Kohli describes the CPM in West Bengal 1987: 227-28).

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Amartya sen development as freedom chapter 1 summary