TY - GEN N2 - 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? DO - 10.1515/9780823292677 DO - doi AB - 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? T1 - Subjects of Responsibility :Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies / AU - Feldman, Leonard, AU - Greenhouse, Carol, AU - Jain, S., AU - Parker, Andrew, AU - Parker, Andrew, AU - Reichman, Ravit, AU - Sarat, Austin, AU - Sarat, Austin, AU - Umphrey, Martha Merrill, AU - Umphrey, Martha, AU - Wertheimer, Eric, JF - Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 JF - Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 LA - eng LA - In English. ID - 1477889 KW - MEDICAL / Ethics. SN - 9780823292677 TI - Subjects of Responsibility :Framing Personhood in Modern Bureaucracies / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292677 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292677 ER -