| Subjects of Responsibility: Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies Contributor(s): Parker, Andrew (Editor), Sarat, Austin (Editor), Umphrey, Martha Merrill (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0823233227 ISBN-13: 9780823233229 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $85.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Medical | Ethics - Business & Economics | Negotiating |
| Dewey: 302.35 |
| LCCN: 2010033995 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 fashioning forms of responsibility, which they then enjoin on populations. How do government and market constitute subjects of responsibility in a culture so enamored of individuality? In what ways can those entities-centrally, in modern culture, those engaged in insuring individuals against loss or harm-themselves be held responsible, and by whom? What kinds of subjectivities are created in this process? Can such subjects be said to be truly responsible, and in what sense? |
Contributor Bio(s): Parker, Andrew: - Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College.Umphrey, Martha Merrill: - Martha Merrill Umphrey is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought at Amherst College.Sarat, Austin: - 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. |