Responsibility: Concept, Social Fact or Political Technology? Guest Editor’s Preface

This preface shows the possibility of analyzing responsibility in three different ways: as a concept (legal or moral), as a social fact, as a political stake and technology. It thus highlights the complexity behind the essays contained in this special issue, which aim to cast a historical and theoretical light on how we are redefining – in keeping with the transformations in the legal, political and moral rationality of our societies – our responsibility towards ourselves (responsibility for our acting and being) and others (someone or something), therefore our being subjects