Law and Irresponsibility: On the Legitimation of Human Suffering

by Scott Veitch

Book Overview

Law is widely assumed to provide contemporary society with its most important means of organizing responsibility. Across a broad range of areas of social life - from the activities of states and citizens, to work, business and private relationships - it is understood that legal regulation plays a crucial role in defining and limiting responsibilities. But Law and Irresponsibility pursues the opposite view: it explores how law organizes irresponsibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415442516
• ISBN13: 9780415442510
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 9.0"