The Spell of Responsibility: Labor, Criminality, Philosophy

by Frieder Vogelmann, Daniel Steuer (Translator)

Overview

Offering an alternative outlook on contemporary (practical) philosophy, this highly original book provides a conceptual history of responsibility within philosophy, including a critical analysis of the relation between philosophy and its social and political contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786602343
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/10/2019
Series:	Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Frieder Vogelmann is Visiting Professor for Critical Social Theory at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. Daniel Steuer is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) in the School of Humanities, University of Brighton.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction / 2. Michel Foucault's Practices / 3. The Practice-Regime of Labour / 4. The Practice-Regime of Criminality / 5. The Practice-Regime of Philosophy / 6. Under Responsibility's Spell / Bibliography / Index

Editorial Reviews

Frieder Vogelmann has written a fascinating book that will leave a distinctive trace in current social theory. His highly original methodological interpretation of Foucault’s archaeology provides him with a powerful tool to critically rethink — and problematize — one of today’s most cherished normative concepts. This is one of the finest examples of what one might call applied Critical Theory.

Martin Saar

Using a Foucauldian methodology, Frieder Vogelmann takes us to the very margins of our culture, where the strange customs of subjects who attribute responsibility to themselves and to others become visible. This makes us realize the great cost – in the form of a continual effort at working on and shaping the self – of this blind allegiance to such a sacrificial ideal.

Axel Honneth