Responsibility has become the "queen of modern virtues," Winston Davis argues, even if there is no consensus as to what responsibility means. This illuminating collection of essays encompasses conceptions of responsibility around the globe, as discussed by leading scholars in the fields of philosophy, anthropology, intellectual history, religious studies, classics, and law. Including "Law as Response to Thou" by Walter Brueggemann, "Jewish Philosophers after Heidegger: Levinas and Jonas on Responsibility" by Lawrence Vogel, "The American Founders' Responsibility" by Ralph Lerner, and "Religious Freedom and Civic Responsibility" by Amy Gutmann, Taking Responsibility provides a rich dialogue of diverse voices describing the many historical senses of responsibility as well as the vastly different approaches to being responsible that we experience in the modern world.
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Dennis J. Brion, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
Kevin Crotty, Washington and Lee University
Winston Davis, Washington and Lee University
James Harlan Foard, Arizona State University
Ann Grodzins Gold, Syracuse University
Amy Gutmann, Princeton University
Simeon Olusegan Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University
Sallie B. King, James Madison University
Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago
Vivian-Lee Nyitray, University of California, Riverside
Abdulaziz Sachedina, University of Virginia
Lawrence Alan Vogel, Connecticut College
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