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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 indiv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Parker, Andrew, 1953-, Sarat, Austin, Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vii, 216 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823233243
0823233243
9780823248490
0823248496
9780823248773
0823248771