The Paradox of Responsibility: An Enigma ate"(p. 193) and that this" serves avaluable
negative function," quoting Robert Biller," thrashing out what people can agree ought not to …

In the dichotomy often drawn between rights and responsibilities, rights are basic,
inalienable, natural, and self-definitional. American legal and political culture promotes and …

History will record that, during the I98os, liberalism came under sustained and politically
devastating attack in the United States., The bearing of this attack, if any, on contemporary …

A few decades ago Maurice Roche concluded an influential book on citizenship with the
observation that 'the politics of citizenship has for generations formulated its goals, fought its …

There must be some connection between our deontic notions, rightness and wrongness,
and our responsibility notions, praise-and blameworthiness. Yet traditional approaches to …

In this article, the author comments on the article" The Responsibilities of Sociological
Poets," by M. Schwalbe, published in an earlier issue of the journal" Qualitative Sociology," …

The reciprocal nature of the relationship between the concepts of responsibilisation and
resilience appears, in policy and political circles at least, almost natural. Whilst both …

Individual responsibility is now very much on the political agenda. Even those who believe
that its importance has been exaggerated by the political right—either because the …

To what extent are we responsible for our actions? Philosophical theorizing about this
question has recently taken a social turn, marking a shift in focus from traditional …

This means that at least part of my story concerns the intellectual history of what some
modern philosophers have referred to as 'agency-freedom'. Agency-freedom is the capacity …