Subjects of Responsibility: Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies
How and why has the concept of responsibility come to pervade the fabric of American public and private life? How are ideas of responsibility instantiated in, and constituted by, the workings of social and political institutions? What place do liberal discourses of responsibility, based on the individual, have in today's biopolitical world, where responsibility is so often a matter of risk assessment, founded in statistical probabilities? Bringing together the work of scholars in anthropology, law, literary studies, philosophy, and political theory, the essays in this volume show how state and private bureaucracies play crucial roles in fashi…
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Weitere Autoren: Sarat, Austin (Hrsg.) / Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-3323-6
- EAN: 9780823233236
- Produktnummer: 8030891
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
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Andrew Parker (External Editor) Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College.Austin Sarat (External Editor) Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He is the author or co-editor of over seventy books and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards.Martha Merrill Umphrey (External Editor) Martha Merrill Umphrey is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.
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