Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age

ISBN-13: 9780521594523 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 344 str.

Christopher Kutz

Opis

We live in a morally flawed world. Our lives are complicated by what other people do, and by the harms that flow from our social, economic, and political institutions. Our relations as individuals to these collective harms constitute the domain of complicity. This book examines the relationship between collective responsibility and individual guilt. It presents a rigorous philosophical account of the nature of our relations to the social groups in which we participate, and uses that account in a discussion of contemporary moral theory.

Recenzje

"Filled with concrete examples, imagined, literary, and historical, Kutz's wide-ranging and probing discussion is written in measured and elegant prose... This thoughtful and stimulating book is a significant addition to the literature." Margaret Gilbert, Social Theory and Practice

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The deep structure of individual accountability; 3. Acting together; 4. Moral accountability and collective action; 5. Complicitous accountability; 6. Problematic accountability: facilitation, unstructured collective harm, and organizational dysfunction; 7. Complicity, conspiracy, and shareholder liability; 8. Conclusion: accountability and the possibility of community; Notes; Bibliography; Index.