Description: Offering an alternative outlook on contemporary (practical) philosophy, this highly original book provides a conceptual history of responsibility within philosophy, including a critical analysis of the relation between philosophy and its social and political contexts.
Brief description: Frieder Vogelmann is a Research Fellow in Political Theory at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, Bremen University.
Review Quotes:
"Using a Foucauldian methodology, Frieder Vogelmann takes us to the very margins of our culture, where the strange customs of subjects who attribute responsibility to themselves and to others become visible. This makes us realize the great cost - in the form of a continual effort at working on and shaping the self - of this blind allegiance to such a sacrificial ideal." --Axel Honneth, Professor of Philosophy, University of Frankfurt and Columbia University
"Frieder Vogelmann has written a fascinating book that will leave a distinctive trace in current social theory. His highly original methodological interpretation of Foucault's archaeology provides him with a powerful tool to critically rethink -- and problematize -- one of today's most cherished normative concepts. This is one of the finest examples of what one might call applied Critical Theory." --Martin Saar, Professor of Political Theory, Leipzig University