Responsibility

Rowman & Littlefield International has just published the paperback edition of The Spell of Responsibility: Labour, Criminality, Philosophy. Also, you can save 30% using the code from the flyer.

My latest article on the concept of responsibility is a critical interpretation of Robert Brandom’s use of ‘responsibility’ to make explicit normativity’s binding force.

I have writen a small teaser for my book The Spell of Responsibility on the RLI blog. Read it on https://www.rowmaninternational.com/blog/against-responsibility.

Still searching for a last minute present? Look no further: Daniel Steuer’s translation of my dissertation Im Bann der Verantwortung has arrived! Significantly shortend and revised, it has just been published as volume two in the series Essex Studies in Critical Theory.

That we should behave and act responsibly seems to be a self-evident norm hardly questioned by anyone. Yet, historically speaking, this is fairly new – only 200 years ago, “responsibility” was a rather marginal legal concept with no ethical significance. So what does the surprising career of “responsibility” mean, both for our thinking and our acting? What happens when “responsibility” becomes a required self-understanding for individuals at the workplace, in the welfare state or in the …