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From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for humanitarianism and social justice. He locates the figure of the "beneficiary" in the history of humanitarian thought, which asks the prosperous to help the poor without requiring them to recognize their causal role in the creation of the abhorrent conditions they seek to remedy. Tracing how the beneficiary has manifested itself in the work of George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Jamaica Kincaid, Naomi Klein, and others, Robbins uncovers a hidden tradition of economic cosmopolitanism. There are no easy answers to the question of how to confront systematic inequality on a global scale. But the first step, Robbins suggests, is to acknowledge that we are, in fact, beneficiaries.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Starving Child 15
2. You Acquiesce In It: George Orwell on the System 33
3. A Short History of Commodity Recognition 51
4. The Nation-State as Agent of Cosmopolitanism 75
5. Naomi Klein's Love Story 93
6. Life Will Win 117
Conclusion: You Can't Handle the Truth 139
Notes 155
Bibliography 169
Index 177
