@article{1477889,
      recid = {1477889},
      author = {Feldman, Leonard,  and Greenhouse, Carol,  and Jain, S.,   and Parker, Andrew,  and Parker, Andrew,  and Reichman,  Ravit,  and Sarat, Austin,  and Sarat, Austin,  and  Umphrey, Martha Merrill,  and Umphrey, Martha,  and  Wertheimer, Eric, },
      title = {Subjects of Responsibility : Framing Personhood in Modern  Bureaucracies /},
      pages = {1 online resource (224 p.)},
      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 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?},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477889},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292677},
}