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Not In Their Name by Holly Lawford-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Not In Their Name by Holly Lawford-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Not In Their Name by Holly Lawford-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Not In Their Name by Holly Lawford-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Holly Lawford-Smith

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There are many actions that we attribute, at least colloquially, to states. Given their size and influence, states are able to inflict harm far beyond the reach of a single individual. But there is a great deal of unclarity about exactly who is implicated in that kind of harm, and how weshould think about responsibility for it. It is a commonplace assumption that democratic publics both authorize and have control over what their states do; that their states act in their name and on their behalf. In Not In Their Name, Holly Lawford-Smith approaches these questions from theperspective of social ontology, asking whether the state is a collective agent, and whether ordinary citizens are members of that agent. If it is, and they are, there's a clear case for democratic collective culpability. She explores alternative conceptions of the state and of membership in thestate; alternative conceptions of collective agency applied to the state; the normative implications of membership in the state; and both culpability (from the inside) and responsibility (from the outside) for what the state does. Ultimately, Lawford-Smith argues for the exculpation of ordinarycitizens and the inculpation of those working in public services. | Not In Their Name by Holly Lawford-Smith, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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