Consent Matters

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Robert E. Goodin (Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University)

Consent Matters

Robert E. Goodin (Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University)

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Oxford University Press
24 May 2024

Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person's consent, made morally permissible. But what is consent, and how does it work? What can be taken for consent (perhaps wrongly) and with what consequences? How does consent come into being and pass out of it? How can consent be conferred, invoked and revoked? What is the role of social and legal norms in governing consent? How contextually sensitive should those norms be in applying to diverse settings, ranging from sexual encounters to prison hospitals to the poll booth? Those are the sorts of broad questions animating this book. It aspires to provide a comprehensive account of the social practice of consent, informed by deep reading in the history of ideas, philosophy, law, political science and sociology. Consent Matters thus serves, at one and the same time, as a guide for the perplexed social practitioner of consent and as a touchstone for philosophical attempts to theorize and to refine those existing practices.

By: Robert E. Goodin (Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Australian National University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 538g
ISBN: 9780192889027
ISBN 10: 0192889028
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 24 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface PART I: THE NATURE OF CONSENT 1: Introduction 2: Consenting, Assenting and Promising PART II: CONSENT IN OPERATION 3: Modes of Consenting 4: Mistakes in Consenting 5: Consenting Without Knowing 6: Evoking and Invoking Consent 7: Revoking Consent PART III: SPECIAL CASES 8: Consent of the Unconscious and the Incompetent: Kinky Sex 9: Consent of the Mute: Medical Interventions in Hunger Strikes 10: Consent by Extension: Voting and Political Authority 11: Epilogue: Consent in Its Place References

Robert Goodin, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University, specializes in political theory and public policy. He was founding Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and General Editor of the eleven-volume Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. A Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, he has been awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.

Reviews for Consent Matters

"In his thought-provoking new book, Consent Matters, Goodin's aim is to ""describe the existing social practice of seeking and giving, receiving and acting upon consent"" in general...Goodin also refreshingly reminds his readers that just because you have someone's consent to do something, this does not actually give you a reason to do it. * Geertje Bol, Times Literary Supplement *"