ISBN:
0823233227
,
0823233235
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9780823233229
,
9780823233236
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 216 p)
,
ill
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23 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Subjects of Responsibility : Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Responsibility
;
Bureaucracy
;
Bureaucracy
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 2009
Abstract:
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 todayGs 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 entitiesGcentrally, in modern culture, those engaged in ensuring individuals against loss or harmGthemselves be held responsible, and by whom?.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Andrew Parker, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- Responsibility, Bureaucracy, and Accountability in Social and Political Life -- Assuming Responsibility in a State of Necessity -- How to Do Responsibility: Apology and Medical Error -- Responsibility and the Burdens of Proof -- Responsibility, Risk, and Insurance -- Whereas, and Other Etymologies of Responsibility -- ''Death by His Own Hand'': Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation -- Bonded and Insured: The Cautious Imagination -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Introduction: Andrew Parker, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey""; ""Responsibility, Bureaucracy, and Accountability in Social and Political Life""; ""Assuming Responsibility in a State of Necessity""; ""How to Do Responsibility: Apology and Medical Error""; ""Responsibility and the Burdens of Proof""; ""Responsibility, Risk, and Insurance""; ""Whereas, and Other Etymologies of Responsibility""; ""��Death by His Own Hand��: Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation""; ""Bonded and Insured: The Cautious Imagination""; ""Notes""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contributors""""Index""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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