Thinking through troubled relationships

Figurations of complicity occupy a highly visible place in our contemporary political and moral imaginations. But what does it mean exactly to be “complicit”? Behind its apparently intuitive character, complicity turns out to be a complex notion, involving theories of mind and action, conceptions of...

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Autors principals: Mahieddin, Émir, Soldani, Jérôme
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicat: Terrain 2022
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Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumari:Figurations of complicity occupy a highly visible place in our contemporary political and moral imaginations. But what does it mean exactly to be “complicit”? Behind its apparently intuitive character, complicity turns out to be a complex notion, involving theories of mind and action, conceptions of responsibility, of the person, as well as ideas about intention. In the field of law as well as in operations of moral judgment, complicity takes different forms according to different contexts and situations, raising fundamental anthropological questions about which this introduction intends to give an overview.