Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering - Couverture souple

Veitch, Scott

 
9780415442510: Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0415442516 ISBN 13 : 9780415442510
Editeur : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007

Synopsis

Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life - from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships - it is understood that legal regulation plays a crucial role in defining and limiting responsibilities. But Law and Irresponsibility pursues the opposite view: it explores how law organizes irresponsibility.

With a particular focus on large-scale harms - including extensive human rights violations, forms of colonialism, and environmental or nuclear devastation - this book analyzes the ways in which law legitimates human suffering by demonstrating how legal institutions operate as much to deflect responsibility for harms suffered as to acknowledge them. Drawing on a series of case studies, it shows not only how law facilitates the dispersal and disavowal of responsibility, but how it does so in consistent and patterned ways.

Irresponsibility is organized, and its organization is traced here to the legal forms, and the social and political conditions, that sustain 'our' complicity in human suffering.

This innovative and interdisciplinary book provides a radical challenge to conventional thinking about law and legal institutions. It will be of considerable interest to those working in law, political and legal theory, sociology and moral philosophy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Scott Veitch

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Éditeur
Routledge-Cavendish
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415442516
ISBN 13 
9780415442510
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Aldershot
Royaume-Uni
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Friedensallee 273
Hamburg
22763
Allemagne

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780415442503: Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0415442508 ISBN 13 :  9780415442503
Editeur : Routledge Cavendish, 2007
Couverture rigide