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The Spell of Responsibility - Labor, Criminality, Philosophy (Paperback)
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The Spell of Responsibility - Labor, Criminality, Philosophy (Paperback)
Series: Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory
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Most people would agree that we should behave and act in a
responsible way. Yet only 200 years ago, 'responsibility' was only
of marginal importance in discussions of law and legal practice,
and it had little ethical significance. What is the significance of
the fact that 'responsibility' now plays such a central role in,
for example, work, the welfare state, or the criminal justice
system? What happens when individuals are generally expected to
think of themselves as 'responsible' agents? And what are the
consequences of the fact that the philosophical analysis of
'responsibility' focuses almost exclusively on conditions of agency
that are mostly absent from real life? In this book, Frieder
Vogelmann demonstrates how large parts of philosophy have fallen
under responsibility's spell, and he uses a Foucauldian approach in
an attempt to break it. The three axes of power, knowledge, and
self are used in a detailed analysis of the practical regimes of
labour (including the welfare state), criminality (including
policing, punishment practices, and criminal proceedings), and
philosophy, and of the two subject positions required by
'responsibility' - those of the attributors and bearers of
responsibility - within them. The power relations between these
positions, which Vogelmann carefully excavates from the grounds of
our practices, reveal that the deck is stacked unevenly from the
start. The translation of this work was funded by
Geisteswissenschaften International - Translation Funding for
Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of
the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office,
the collecting society VG WORT and the Boersenverein des Deutschen
Buchhandels (German Publisher & Booksellers Association)
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