Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering
Autor Scott Veitchen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2007
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415442503
ISBN-10: 0415442508
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge-Cavendish
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415442508
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge-Cavendish
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
General and PostgraduateCuprins
Introduction. The Disavowals of Legality. Social Structures and the Dispersal of Responsibilities. The Laws of Irresponsibility. Legalising Global Disaster. Complicity in Organised Irresponsibility. Conclusion
Recenzii
'One of the most important texts in legal theory of the last decade.The public sphere demands that we combine, as effectively as possible, awareness of the inevitability of our limitations with the courage and realism of responsiveness. Veitch has taken us a great deal forward in the right direction. To ignore his work, to fail to build on his insights and warnings, would be to disavow the responsibility of scholarship.' - Maksymilian Del Mar,Global Law Books, July 2008
'[Law and Irresponsibility] is a strong theoretical contribution to the study of law and behavior and stands as a meaningful and innovative contribution to the discipline.' - Kevin M. Wagner, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 18 No. 10 (October 2008)
'One of the most important texts in legal theory of the last decade.The public sphere demands that we combine, as effectively as possible, awareness of the inevitability of our limitations with the courage and realism of responsiveness. Veitch has taken us a great deal forward in the right direction. To ignore his work, to fail to build on his insights and warnings, would be to disavow the responsibility of scholarship.' - Maksymilian Del Mar,Global Law Books, July 2008
'[Law and Irresponsibility] is a strong theoretical contribution to the study of law and behavior and stands as a meaningful and innovative contribution to the discipline.' - Kevin M. Wagner, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 18 No. 10 (October 2008)
'It is powerful, both in its argument and in its prose. It is a clever book, wide-ranging and passionate; a combination of sophisticated analysis and eloquent jeremiad' - Martin Krygier, the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy
'Law and Irresponsibility is written with engaging energy and passion. Its frequent and vivid examples make it highly readable notwithstanding the abstract nature of its central thesis.' - Nicola Lacey, Social & Legal Studies, 2009; 18
"an important and elegantly written book" - Emmanuel Melissaris, Edinburgh Law Review (2009) Vol 13
'[Law and Irresponsibility] is a strong theoretical contribution to the study of law and behavior and stands as a meaningful and innovative contribution to the discipline.' - Kevin M. Wagner, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 18 No. 10 (October 2008)
'One of the most important texts in legal theory of the last decade.The public sphere demands that we combine, as effectively as possible, awareness of the inevitability of our limitations with the courage and realism of responsiveness. Veitch has taken us a great deal forward in the right direction. To ignore his work, to fail to build on his insights and warnings, would be to disavow the responsibility of scholarship.' - Maksymilian Del Mar,Global Law Books, July 2008
'[Law and Irresponsibility] is a strong theoretical contribution to the study of law and behavior and stands as a meaningful and innovative contribution to the discipline.' - Kevin M. Wagner, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 18 No. 10 (October 2008)
'It is powerful, both in its argument and in its prose. It is a clever book, wide-ranging and passionate; a combination of sophisticated analysis and eloquent jeremiad' - Martin Krygier, the Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy
'Law and Irresponsibility is written with engaging energy and passion. Its frequent and vivid examples make it highly readable notwithstanding the abstract nature of its central thesis.' - Nicola Lacey, Social & Legal Studies, 2009; 18
"an important and elegantly written book" - Emmanuel Melissaris, Edinburgh Law Review (2009) Vol 13
Descriere
The law is often thought to be primarily concerned with organising responsibility by creating and imposing various obligations. This book offers a contrasting view - namely that legal institutions, through their practices, concepts and categories, in fact deflect responsibility, instead promoting an irresponsibility of sorts. This stance challenges the conventional way in which the law and its bodies have been consistently viewed.