Law and Irresponsibility On the Legitimation of Human Suffering

Name: Law and Irresponsibility On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
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ISBN: 9780415442510

ISBN-10: 0415442516

ISBN-13: 9780415442510

Edition: 2007

Authors: Scott Veitch

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It is commonly understood that in its focus on rights and obligations law is centrally concerned with organising responsibility. In defining how obligations are created, in contract or property law, say, or imposed, as in tort, public, or criminal law, law and legal institutions are usually seen as societys key mode of asserting and defining the content and scope of responsibilities. This book takes the converse view: legal institutions are centrally involved in organising irresponsibility. Particularly with respect to the production of large-scale harms including extensive human rights violations, forms of colonialism, or environmental or nuclear devastation and in opposition to…

Book details

List price: $64.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



The disavowals of legality


The measure of human suffering


'It is daunting to acknowledge ...'


The question of responsibility


The juridical architecture



Social structures and the dispersal of responsibilities


The mark of irresponsibility


Disappearing responsibility


The rise of responsibility


The division of labour and role responsibility


Individualisation and the irresponsible mentality


Responsibility transference-politics and economy


The invisible hand of irresponsibility?



The laws of irresponsibility



Juridicial concepts and categories at work



Colonial impunities



Apocalyptic jurisprudence



Complicity in organised irresponsibility


'Not in our name'?


Death and taxes


Law and the slaughterhouse


Bibliography


Index