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"How can human beings acknowledge and experience the burdens of political responsibility? Why are we tempted to flee them, and how might we come to affirm them? J.L. Schiff calls this experience of responsibility "the cultivation of responsiveness." In Burdens of Political Responsibility: Narrative, Ontology, Responsiveness, she identifies three dispositions that inhibit responsiveness - thoughtlessness, bad faith, and misrecognition - and turns to storytelling in its manifold forms as a practice that might facilitate and frustrate it. Through critical engagements with an unusual cast of characters (from Bourdieu to Sartre) hailing from a variety of disciplines (political theory, phenomenology, sociology, and literary criticism), she argues that how we represent our world and ourselves in the stories we share, and how we receive those stories, can facilitate and frustrate the cultivation of responsiveness"--

Here, Schiff looks at Leo Strauss and Jacques Derrida with regard to the theory of liberal democracy. Despite the differences between their camps, 'Both were critical of the self-confidence of liberal democracy, and for both the relationship between politics and philosophy was a central theme of their work.' Both also attempted to clarify their own thinking by turning to the Greeks. Schiff puts them in productive conversation with each other, particularly with regard to their signature practices of reading texts, esotericism and deconstruction. Adapted from the source document.