Responsibility

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Responsibility is written by Ghassan Hage and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0522862284 (ISBN 10) and 9780522862287 (ISBN 13).

The concept of responsibility permeates social life. While it has many meanings, they often centre around questions of practical and moral accountability, culpability and liability. One can learn a great deal about a social formation by looking at the way the meanings of responsibility are deployed within it, the way they vary from one social space to another, and the way they are often at the centre of a political struggle over how we define and apportion blame. The essays in this book do more than examine such processes. Each in its own way also invites the reader to push existing assumptions about what individual, political, ecological and corporate responsibility entails.