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The Spell of Responsibility ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory Series editors: Peter Dews, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex; Lorna Finlayson, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex; Fabian Freyenhagen, Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the Univeristy of Essex; Steven Gormley, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex; Timo Jütten, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Univeristy of Essex; and Jörg Schaub, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Essex Essex Studies in Contemporary Critical Theory. This series aims to develop the critical analysis of contemporary societies. The series publishes both substantive critical analyses of recent and current developments in society and culture and studies dealing with methodological/conceptual problems in the Critical Theory tradition, intended to further enhance its ability to address the problems of contemporary society The Political is Political Lorna Finlayson The Spell of Responsibility Frieder Vogelmann; translated by Daniel Steuer Social Suffering: Sociology, Psychology, Politics Emmanuel Renault; translated by Maude Dews ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* The Spell of Responsibility Labor, Criminality, Philosophy Frieder Vogelmann Translated by Daniel Steuer ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26–34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706, USA With additional offices in Boulder, New York, Toronto (Canada), and Plymouth (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright © 2018 by Frieder Vogelmann and Daniel Steuer All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: HB 978-1-78660-233-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Vogelmann, Frieder, author. Title: The spell of responsibility : labor, criminality, philosophy / Frieder Vogelmann ; translated by Daniel Steuer. Other titles: Im Bann der Verantwortung. English Description: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018. | Series: Essex studies in contemporary critical theory | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017040082 (print) | LCCN 2017042936 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786602350 (electronic) | ISBN 9781786602336 (cloth : alk. paper) ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* Subjects: LCSH: Responsibility. | Foucault, Michel, 1926–1984. Classification: LCC BJ1453 (ebook) | LCC BJ1453 .V6413 2018 (print) | DDC 170—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017040082 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992. Printed in the United States of America ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* Contents Acknowledgments Addendum for the English Translation 1 Introduction Theses Conceptual History Analyses Diffusion through an Increasing Power to Act Individualization as a Neoliberal Strategy Synopsis Notes 2 Michel Foucault’s Practices Three Axes Power Knowledge Relation to Self Recapitulation I: A Critical Assessment of the Present Practices Joseph Rouse’s “Scientific Practices” Recapitulation II: On the Status of the Concept of Practices Responsibility as a Discursive Operator ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* Notes 3 The Practical Regime of Labor Wage Labor The Topos “Subjectification of Labor” “Responsibility” in Practices of Wage Labor Recapitulation I: “Responsibility” and the Experience of Wage Labor Unemployment The Questioning of “Individual Responsibility” The “Unemployed” of the Neosocial Society Recapitulation II: “Responsibility” and the Experience of Unemployment Notes 4 The Practical Regime of Criminality Foucault and Legal Practices The Responsibility of the “Responsibilization Strategy” On the Transformation of the Experience of Criminality through “Responsibilization” “Responsibility” in the Practices of the Responsibilization Strategy Recapitulation I: “Responsibility” and the Experience of Criminality Responsibility in Court Responsibility and Guilt under the Democratic Rule of Law (Klaus Günther) The Theater of Responsibility Recapitulation II: “Responsibility” in the Context of the Law’s Self- Reflection and Self-Staging Notes 5 The Practical Regime of Philosophy The Experience of Philosophical Practices “Responsibility” as a Metaphysical Problem Freedom of the Will as Self-Determination Recapitulation I: “Responsibility and Accountability” “Responsibility” as a Moral Problem ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* The Ambivalence of Responsibility (Friedrich Nietzsche) The Relation to Self of the Philosophical Concepts of Responsibility (I): Being Subjugated Recapitulation II: “Responsibility” and Duty The Relation to Self of Philosophical Responsibility (II): Subjugating Recapitulation III: “Responsibility” and the (Moral) Power to Act “Responsibility” as a Given Language as a Pattern of Relations of Responsibility (Robert Brandom) Responsive Normativity (Joseph Rouse Revisited) Recapitulation IV: “Responsibility” in the Normativist Limit Regime Notes 6 Under the Spell of Responsibility “Responsibility” and the Experience of Labor, Criminality, and Truth Analysis and Critique Works by Foucault Bibliography Index About the Author ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks******* Acknowledgments This book is the revised version of my doctoral dissertation, but it is also the product of happenstance: without Axel Honneth’s supervision and help, especially in the most difficult phases, I would never have written the book. Without Martin Saar’s friendly guidance, it would have been even more obscure and extreme than it might strike some readers to be. And without Thomas Biebricher, Greta Wagner and Michael Walter, I would not have enjoyed writing it as much as I did. I have learned a lot from the sometimes-heated discussions with Klaus Günther and Eva Buddeberg as well as from the comments of all those brave and patient enough to read large parts of the manuscript in its various stages: Julia Christ, Boris Eßmann, Gösta Gantner, Federica Gregoratto, Kristina Lepold, Marina Martinez Mateo, Jörg Schaub, Tatjana Schönwälder-Kunze, and Titus Stahl. Conversations with Claudia Blöser, Volkan Çıdam, Robin Celikates, and Stefan Gosepath also were of great help, as was the criticism and encouragement from participants of workshops and conferences in Frankfurt, Munich, and Stirling where I presented parts of the argument. An early day-long debate with Louis Carré, Katia Genel, and Haeng-Nam Lee led me to pursue the project despite all difficulties; support from my parents, Monika and Wolfgang Vogelmann, enabled me to do so. What I owe to Christina Müller exceeds the bounds of an acknowledgment. ******ebook converter DEMO Watermarks*******